Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- Subject: Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- From: Rob Lewis <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:23:52 -0700
As a relative AS newbie (with fairly-wide-but-not-very-deep experience in other programming languages) I've always thought of AppleScript as a read-mostly language. That is, it's fairly easy to read, but when you sit down and try to write it, things that seem like they ought to work just don't. (And of course, the syntax error messages aren't very helpful.)
And it almost seems like there's an inherent contradiction in trying to endow and idiot-simple language with fairly tricky OOP features.
Don't get me wrong: I greatly admire the concept behind AS and I'm very glad it exists and I enjoy tinkering with it (and occasionally manage to do something useful). I wish Apple supported it wholeheartedly. But it does strike me as a sort of neither-fish-nor-fowl oddity.
And-I've-now-used-up-my-month's-supply-of-hyphens.
I wonder, is that the consensus here on the list? Does everyone agree that all the work put in to giving AppleScript an English-like syntax has failed to make it the most easily understood computer language?
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