Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- Subject: Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 00:30:35 +0100
On 31 Jul 2007, at 22:23, has wrote:
How do you think languages like Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. have
managed to become far more powerful and successful than AppleScript
in roughly the same length of time? One, because they laid a solid
foundation to get users started with, and two, because they
provided the rich extension mechanisms that allow early users to
build on that initial foundation, and later waves of users to build
on the work of their predecessors, and so on.
Those languages thrive because they allow newcomers to stand on the
shoulders of giants, to paraphrase Sir Issac Newton, rather than
scrabble in the dirt like their fathers and forefathers before
them, as is sadly all too often the situation with AppleScript.
Newton chose those words carefully to attack Robert Hook - who
suffered from spinal problems.
Comparing AppleScript with "Perl, Python, Ruby etc" is as
disingenuous as the Newton quote...
Wouldn't a comparison with VBScript be more apt?
--
Martin Orpen
<http://www.idea-digital.com/>
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