Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
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?
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold email@hidden
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