Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
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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