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: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:55:29 -0800
- Thread-topic: on neophytes vs perfectionists (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
On 12/18/08 1:55 AM, "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> With more than 30 years experience I find AppleScript to be the least
>> approachable language I've encountered.
>
> As someone who has teaches AppleScript, I can tell you you're not alone --
> people with extensive programming experience often have the hardest time
> coming to grips with it. My guess is they keep wanting it to be what it's
> not.
BING!
"Why can't it have dot syntax like javascript?"
"Why can't it have C syntax like <many other languages>?"
"Why can't it be more like ruby or python?"
"Why is it so verbose? Why can't it be terse, like shell?"
Because if that's what you want, you should use those instead? AppleScript
is AppleScript. Just like English isn't Chinese, Farsi, Portuguese, or
Spanish, AppleScript isn't a lot of other languages. "Not being something
else" is never a definition of "bad".
--
³Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work"
C.f. Edison
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