Re: [OT] AppleScripter's Salary
Re: [OT] AppleScripter's Salary
- Subject: Re: [OT] AppleScripter's Salary
- From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:00:53 -0800
>>>>you should be thinking of yourself as a programmer and workflow specialist, rather than AppleScripter per se
C programmers, while not a dime-a-dozen, are almost considered a commodity, and if you market yourself as a programmer who works in AppleScript, you may be devaluing your worth in the market place.
However, if you market yourself as, for example, an expert in AppleScripting Quark, InDesign, PhotoShop (or whatever relevant combination of programs your AppleScript expertise extends to) you are significantly enhancing your value.
In many situations a skilled AppleScripter is more valuable to a company than a skilled C programmer.
You may find this link helpful in convincing your employer understand the value of increasing their investment in your skills.
www.wtmedia.com/services/applescript/roi/index.html
>>>>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 could still become true.
I'd say it is certainly true. AppleScripters with a wide range of skill levels are writing scripts every day for a huge variety of purposes. Most who I've been spoken to do not consider themselves "programmers" but are have expertise in other areas and use scripting as a small part of their job.
>>>>But what has actually happened is that shell scripting is in fact easier than AppleScript!.
I understand that many programmers feel that way, but I also believe many AppleScripters (myself included) believe the opposite.
Not only that but the thing about using shell scripting from appleScript is really a lazy short cut on apple's part.
Nearly everything done via shell scripting could and should be done via appleScript using appleScript syntax. Apple has simply been too lazy (or unwilling to make the investment needed) to implement it.
>>>> original concept that would make paid Apple scripters an oxymoron?'
I don't believe that was ever the original concept.
>>>Just for a little perspective: they said the same thing about Fortran.
Probably C for that matter and assembler and just about any language beyond whatever machine language that processors think in.
ES
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