Re: [OT] AppleScripter's Salary
Re: [OT] AppleScripter's Salary
- Subject: Re: [OT] AppleScripter's Salary
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:58:08 -0600
- Thread-topic: [OT] AppleScripter's Salary
On 2/28/07 16:00, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> +5 Informative, that man.
>
> Doug: To put it another way, it's the specialist domain knowledge and
> experience - NOT the generalist programming skills - that is earning
> the big bucks here. Folk who know their loops from variables and
> functions from conditionals are ten-a-penny these days. Folk who know
> their dot-gain from their grid theory are in somewhat shorter supply,
> while those who know their dot-gain and grid theory AND can beat out
> something that approaches functional code to take care of it all
> automatically are even rarer.
>
> If there's a genuine confusion here, it's because the term
> "AppleScripter" tends to get used as a convenient but misleading
> shorthand for "Print Publishing Workflow Development Expert". e.g. I
> can script applications in five different languages (six if I keep
> the Camel book permanently open;), but I simply don't have the level
> of industry experience that a Shane or a Ray or a Hanaan has, which
> is why they're the ones earning the big bucks and I'm not. (the
> rotters;p)
Expanding further on that, you also pay for, (although there's some luck in
this part), elegant code. Now, I can beat AppleScript until it does what I
want. I'm good at beating things, I teach people how to beat on each other.
I just finished a rather large script for doing things that Adobe won't.
However, my code is...well, I'm not a clever programmer, so my code is
somewhat simplistic, and I may in fact write more lines of comments than
code. I probably make the AppleScript baby jesus cry.
Someone like the folks Has mentioned, or a Paul or a Matt? That's code that
makes you weep too, but for joy. That's worth something, that kind of clean
code. Worth a lot more than my mess.
--
"If you don't ask, you don't get."
- Mahatma Gandhi
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