Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure
Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure
- Subject: Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure
- From: "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:10:09 +0100
Jon Pugh wrote on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:02:32 -0700:
>In their vein of throwing gasoline on a fire, I'll present a critique
>of something we've all struggled with for years. Terminology
>conflicts. Add in a blog, some incessant barking and a tendency to
>make wild statements, and I'm sure we'll have a thread that can last
>for years.
>
>
>"It was a grand and noble idea to create an English-like programming
>language, one that would seem approachable and unintimidating to the
>common user. But in this regard, AppleScript has proven to be a
>miserable and utter failure."
>
>Daring Fireball: The English-Likeness Monster
><http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/englishlikeness_monster>
I was pointed to this article last night. Ostensibly, it's about why
'path to application support from user domain' doesn't work properly in a
System Events 'tell' block. Instead of just saying "It's a terminology
conflict: don't put things in application 'tell' blocks that don't need
to be there," he labours through a few work-rounds "sent in by his
readers", then digresses into a verbose diatribe against AppleScript for
not being sufficiently English-like (presumably meaning some dialect of
US English), nor sufficiently Python-like, nor sufficiently like whatever
else he's used to, before finally arriving at the by then non sequitur
conclusion that _his_ advice is not to put things in 'tell' blocks that
don't need to be there. In the process, he entirely misses the fact that
instead of erroring, 'path to' simply ignores the bad 'from user domain'
parameter caused by the conflict -- which might legitimately be considered
a bug.
If you're going to use a language -- computer or natural -- you should
learn to work with what it _is_, not bitch about it for not being some
other language you know. By all means discuss any shortcomings, but if
you really think it's useless or "a complete and utter failure", you can
be more constructive by shutting up and using your preferred alternative
elsewhere.
NG
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