Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure
Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure
- Subject: Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:19:51 +0100
Bill Cheeseman wrote:
> > Application/extension authors should be free to use
> > whatever identifiers they want, not made to fight bloody combat to the death
> > over who gets the last non-crappy identifier on some massive, lumbering
> > "Officially Approved" list. I can't think of any other environment that would
> > impose such bloated, ridiculous bureaucracy on contributors and get away with
> > it,
>
>Objective-C/Cocoa.
C and Smalltalk too. None of which have a vast Soviet-style Bureau of Compulsory Identifier Naming controlling them, however, which was my point about 'terminology czars'. Folk using those languages are aware of this flaw and how to minimize/avoid it (e.g. by independently applying some sort of name prefix to their own code by way of ad-hoc name-spacing); they might grumble a bit but they generally just get on and deal with it.
>If osax writers would follow the advice that's been floating around for the
>last 5 or 6 years to stop writing osaxen and write scriptable background
>applications instead, these problems would be confined to the few essential
>osaxen that really have become part of the language.
Yup. If folk really want to bug someone, they should bug Apple to declare the OSAX API deprecated to all third-party developers. Bit late now, but still better than never.
has
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