Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- Subject: Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- From: Ed Stockly <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:28:26 -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.)
That's exactly the experience I had when I started scripting.
That is why I believe it is so important to have a supportive
community willing to help newbies get over that very first hump, and
all the smaller humps that come after.
There are books and tutorials but they can't replace advice from an
expert, or even a slightly more experienced newbie.
At one time this list was the best, if not the only, place newbies
could go for the kind of interactive support that this language
requires. But I don't think it is anymore.
Newbies with basic simple questions have been scolded for not buying
the books, for not trying hard enough before asking a question and I
won't even mention the other thing (just to prove I'm not completely
bonkers).
And it almost seems like there's an inherent contradiction in
trying to endow and idiot-simple language with fairly tricky OOP
features.
Yet idiots like me prove that it works every day.
Ed
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