Re: What makes appleScript so easy
Re: What makes appleScript so easy
- Subject: Re: What makes appleScript so easy
- From: "J. Stewart" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:25:18 -0500
On 12/6/07 at 11:07 AM, Ed Stockly <email@hidden> spake thusly:
Oh, that reminds me, another AppleScript issue for me. Just
because some one else provides a particular function or tool
doesn't mean that Apple is off the hook.
Third party vendors have an important role, but there is far
too much reliance on developers and shell scripting for things
that should be built into the language and the technology.
Ed,
This isn't a snipe at you so please don't take it that way. I'm
just tired of bandwidth wasted on this type of discussion and
your post was convenient.
My 2¢
On the subject of "vanilla Applescript":
Applescript was originally (and still is) designed as a "user
friendly" API to inter-application communication. It was not
designed as a text, graphics, sound, etc. manipulator in and of
itself. That it can do much of this is due to external add-ons
in the form of applications and scripting additions. The whole
point of Applescript is to have the applications/additions do
the heavy lifting in those areas and that means that third party
externals are pretty much it's entire reason for being!
No matter how hard you beat a plow horse it isn't going to
outrun a thoroughbred race horse. Applescript isn't a full blown
comprehensive programming language. If that's what your looking
for and expect of it I suggest you explore some alternatives.
A lot of the problems we see on this list are because someone
expects Applescript to do something it was never intended to do.
If you expect Applescript to do what it's designed to do then
you will realize the place to complain about it's lack of
something is the third party vendors, this includes Apple when
it's apps aren't scriptable or have bugs.
--
You can get more with a simple prayer and a Thompson
sub-machinegun than you can with a simple prayer alone. -John Dillinger
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