Re: on neophytes vs perfectionists (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
Re: on neophytes vs perfectionists (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
- Subject: Re: on neophytes vs perfectionists (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
- From: Paul Scott <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:30:39 -0800
On Dec 18, 2008, at 8:12 AM, David Rouse wrote:
Paul Scott wrote:
4) Applescript can't run by itself the way a shell script can. It
has to connect to a window server, so it can't run well out of
crontab or launchd without the user being "logged in".
5) It's not suited for generalized scripting. Any use beyond
controlling an active GUI application is severely limited.
Just from my point of view, that is exactly what AppleScript is all
about. At the newspaper I work for we use AppleScript quite
frequently to automate repetitive tasks in Quark's QuarkXPress (a
GUI page layout application), tasks that standard Perl, Bash, etc.
wouldn't be helpful with.
Yes. And No. Why should it be limited?
On Dec 18, 2008, at 1:55 AM, Shane Stanley wrote:
My guess is [people with extensive programming experience] keep
wanting it to be what it's not.
Precisely!
Paul
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