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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: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:07:32 +0100

Michelle Steiner wrote:

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.

In my case, AppleScript was my first language and I spent several years using nothing else.


BTW, during that time I put quite a bit of effort into trying to create pure AppleScript solutions for a variety of tasks. Some of those solutions are still sound (e.g. working with lists is best done in AS due to the inherent limitations of Apple events which are needed to communicate with osaxen/scriptable FBAs). Others are, in hindsight, complete rubbish, trying to do things in AppleScript that the language simply isn't up to.

That I can look back on past works now and know which are good and which are crap is due to learning about things outside of AppleScript - other languages, general programming theory, basic algorithms, etc. My only regret is that I didn't do so sooner - it might've saved a lot of blood, sweat and tears being expended unecessarily on many an occasion just because I didn't know better.

HTH

has
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