Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- Subject: Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- From: Simon Forster <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:58:27 +0100
On 27 Jul 2007, at 00:28, Doug McNutt wrote:
Actually it's often easier to invoke AppleScript using the
osascript tool within a shell script.
And I have to admit that that's the way I'm drifting. Use a.n. other
tool for control and call AppleScript as required to communicate with
applications. I don't really grok shell scripting so I tend to work
in one of the Ps (currently heading towards Perl but will use PHP for
profit. Played with Python for years but it's just not clicked with me).
My take is that AppleScript is a great language (concept?) that's
been ignored and has ossified over the years. Now we've got too many
other options which, quite frankly, are more powerful.
Oh. And I'm still on the list more for the non-AppleScript stuff that
bubbles through than the pure AppleScript stuff. I'd say the list
just reflects the real world and that's the way it should be. Try to
straight-jacket it and it'll just fade into irrelevance.
Simon Forster
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