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: Sun, 08 May 2005 20:30:34 -0500
On 5/8/05 15:49, "Elliotte Harold" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Um, you're a programmer, so you telling me it's unfriendly is not the the
>> unfriendly I was talking about.
>
> You're confusing flat out disagreement with misunderstanding. I do
> understand exactly what you're saying. I simply don't believe it.
>
> AppleScript is confusing and poorly designed for *everyone*. It is a bad
> language. The problem is not that making AppleScript accessible to
> non-programmers makes it inaccessible to programmers. The problem is
> that a poor effort to design a language for non-programmers ended up
> creating a language that looked superficially friendly, but that is in
> fact massively unfriendly to everyone, programmer and non-programmer
> alike. I agree that no language is perfect for everyone and every use.
> However, AppleScript is bad for everyone.
That's funny, because I have a friend who's a video guy who's teaching
himself studio, and he's definitely not a programmer.
So I'm thinking you're confusing "I don't like it" with "I have proof it
sucks".
By that token, all programming languages suck. Because I don't like any of
them.
--
"If you don't ask, you don't get."
- Mahatma Gandhi
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