Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure
Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure
- Subject: Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:25:30 -0500
- Thread-topic: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure
On 9/28/05 16:10, "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> "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.
That's always my advice. Before you start telling things what to do, see if
you have to or not.
--
Committees never have vision.
They have meetings.
john c welch
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