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Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly


  • Subject: Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
  • From: Elliotte Harold <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 08:20:49 -0400

David Marshall 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.)

C is hardly a language for hobbyists or novices. Hell, it's hardly a language for experts. The proper comparison is probably with Python. Now there's a language that's genuinely easy to use.


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).

There's a debugger? I must have missed that. Is that new in Tiger or something?


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