Re: [OT] AppleScripter's Salary
Re: [OT] AppleScripter's Salary
- Subject: Re: [OT] AppleScripter's Salary
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:22:05 -0600
- Thread-topic: [OT] AppleScripter's Salary
On 2/26/07 20:22, "Doug McNutt" <email@hidden> wrote:
> First Hypercard and then AppleScript were advertised as "programming for the
> rest of us" with "English-like" syntax that made it all simple enough that a
> priesthood of paid programmers would not be required.
That was marketing wonkery writ large. You can say what you like about the
language, but both Hypercard and AppleScript *are programming languages*.
The illogic of spinning either as anything else quickly destroys the
marketing. What they *are* is initially less intimidating than other
languages.
>
> That could still become true. But what has actually happened is that shell
> scripting is in fact easier than AppleScript!. Whatever happened to the
> original concept that would make paid Apple scripters an oxymoron?
The whole <language> is easier/harder than <language> thing is somewhat
silly, because it's utterly personal. Easier how? I find shell annoying for
many of the same reasons people find AppleScript annoying, because the
syntax you use changes depending on the apps/utilities you string together,
only without any pesky attempt at readability.
I'm sure that someone finds if fi more readable than if end if, but that
someone ain't me.
The idea that you can build professional workflow scripts for large-scale
use in ANY language without requiring one whit of programming conceptual
knowledge or discipline is silly. Whether you have those concepts taught to
you or you pick them up on your own, you're going to learn them, or you're
going to not do big scripts, regardless of language.
The only people who seriously think that AppleScripters don't do work worthy
of professional salary need to stop believing marketing.
--
" In reality we are not super-uber-geeks by some natural ability... no, we
just are the ones who took the time to understand the tools and technologies
we use. Sometimes we are just the *only* ones who actually read the manual.
N + 1 = Expert."
Chuck Goolsbee, Mac-Mgrs' listmom
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