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Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
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Re: AppleScript and shell scripting


  • Subject: Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:51:33 -0700

On Jul 29, 2007, at 1:28 PM, has wrote:

If AppleScript wasn't such a grossly deficient language, you wouldn't get nearly as many folk resorting to shell scripting as a workaround to its inadequacies in the first place.

I wonder, though, how many of those people who provide shell script solutions knew shell scripting, perl, etc., before they were exposed to Applescript. Conversely, how many of us who try to do as much as we can with Applescript knew it before being exposed to shell scripting.


-- Michelle

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