Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- Subject: Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:30:48 +1000
On 25/07/2007, at 4:56 AM, Stockly, Ed wrote:
I'm not opposed to shell scripting, I use shell scripting myself on
occasion. I recognize that it's a useful and important tool, I'm
glad it's
here and I have nothing but respect for those who use it every day.
But, shell scripting takes up way too much bandwidth on this list
Please desist your campaign to push those of us who want to combine
shell methods with AppleScript off onto another list. It is an
unwarranted discrimination and rather unpleasant to see your constant
call for us to be bundled off. It may suit your sense of order for us
all to wander over to macSCRPT but it diminishes this list. I'll
mention the absence of John Delacour as an example of the loss we
experience when people decide to impose themselves on the community
here.
I think that the shell solutions posed here are extremely useful.
They are situated in a context which makes them sensible and useful
to me. I can see how they interact with AppleScript and I get to see
the pros/cons of the approaches compared by people who know both
shell and Applescript. I don't imagine that I can get too many people
over comp.bash.newb to give me a decent comparison of AppleScript v
Shell methods.
It's heartening that your motivation is to provide an encouraging
environment for Applescript newcomers. My recollection of arriving
here was that the technical content of most of the posts were beyond
my comprehension. There was some obvious good humour and a mixture of
patience and impatience. People contributed to my learning by
providing what they considered to be the best methods and examples.
That doesn't seem to have changed at all. Imposing a restriction on
the kind of scripting advice that may be used here won't make the
environment any more welcoming and good natured. It can only divide
the community. As high minded as I might feel about giving something
back, I don't think I'd stay to wean the newb's. To be frank, there
has to be some quid pro quo. My interests are in seeing where the
language goes when it is being applied. If a policy restricting
discussions of the shell were imposed here I'd cancel my subscription.
malcolm
--
ideas are cheap : labour is expensive.
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