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Re: code reuse [was: Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure]
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Re: code reuse [was: Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure]


  • Subject: Re: code reuse [was: Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure]
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:16:21 -0500
  • Thread-topic: code reuse [was: Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure]

On 9/29/05 03:14, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:

>
>> Now maybe we just need re-educating in the Right Way. Or maybe just as
>> AppleScript seems to annoy people like John Gruber and Doug McNutt, it
>> attracts people who are more comfortable with a different approach.
>
> A technically inferior approach, true. But never underestimate the vast power
> of "Worse is Better". I mean, given the choice between drinking beer, chasing
> girls, enjoying sunny afternoons in the park, or spending several years locked
> in a dark room slaving away to become a Level 18 Code Mage, which would most
> folks here rather do? :p

The former? But I grew up in Miami, so that skews my answers.

The problem is also exacerbated by the fact that most folks are happy as
clams with "good enough"

--
I had no system of shooting as such. It is definitely more in the feeling
side of things that these skills develop. I was at the front five and a half
years, and you just got a feeling for the right amount of lead.
-- Lt. General Guenther Rall, GAF.


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