Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- Subject: Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:35:54 +0200
At 1:07 AM +0100 7/30/07, has wrote:
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.
You know my interpretation: you are trying to use the core of
AppleScript to do real things, while the core of AppleScript is only
intended to allow extensions, which do real things.
So, I still find it misleading when you say "things that AppleScript
simply isn't up to".
Just one example if I'm too unclear: certainly AppleScript isn't up
to process XML, however there are powerful XML apps written in
AppleScript because a script may call XMLLib.osax.
Like we discussed already, what would Python be up to without any module.
Emmanuel
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