Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- Subject: Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- From: David Rice <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:05:21 -0400
On 24-Jul-07, at 2:56 PM, Stockly, Ed wrote:
What's the harm in responding to a user with something like this:
"An appleScript solution might be a bit cumbersome for what you're
trying to
do. Ask this question on the mac scripter digest and you'll get a
few nifty
shell scripting solutions that you might like better".
The harm might be that you are unnecessarily diluting the richness of
this list and at the same time making the life of subscribers harder
than it should be. Who, besides you, is trumpeting politely or
otherwise, a restriction of an apparent natural extension to the
power of basic applescript. An extension that appears to have the
support of a good number of contributors.
I'd suggest that you eat some of you own dog food and stifle the "not
invented here" or "our [Ed's] way or the highway" attitude and let a
novice lister [me] filter the content and embrace a solution that
might involve something else I don't understand but gets the job done.
MHO
Cheers,
David
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