Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- Subject: Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 18:46:40 -0500
On 5/6/05 16:07, "David Marshall" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I greatly admire the syntactical efficiency of C, for example. Years
> ago I was able to write an absurd little command-line program that took
> as input an English word and returned its Pig Latin equivalent. (Try
> THAT in AppleScript!) But my eyes began to glaze over at the notion of
> header files, linking, compiling, etc. I just wanted to write little
> programs and run them, not make a career of mastering steep learning
> curves. (It cracks me up to read that Objective-C is a "simple"
> language.)
>
> In AppleScript, I can do just that: write a routine, compile it, and
> debug it, all between dinner and bed time. I can do this because the
> language is so limited in scope, and because the editor, compiler,
> debugger and runner are conveniently provided in an IDW (Integrated
> Development Window).
>
> It's not the "English-likeness" that makes AppleScript friendly, AFAIC;
> it's the "Limited-Paletteness."
A very good point that I completely overlooked.
--
"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
- Gandhi
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