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 10:18:00 -0800
- Thread-topic: on neophytes vs perfectionists (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
On 12/18/08 9:05 AM, "Paul Scott" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> I'm with Chris on this one. AppleScript is not loose at all. It's
>> an incredibly simple language.
>
> It's simple only on the surface. Does anyone really expect a neophyte
> to understand its intricacies? Especially since the documentation only
> scratches the surface? And the problems aren't just with the language
> per se. Are we really expected to depend entirely on the dictionaries
> without any supporting documentation? Just one example (of a myriad),
> what does iTunes do with "make" from the standard suite? What doesn't
> it do? ... I feel abandoned.
Okay, but then how is the core AppleScript team supposed to make <other
application team or other company> fix that? They can't, all they can do is
ask. Bad Application-specific API documentation is the fault of the
Application team, and if it's something that really bothers you, file bugs.
That does work here and there. In fact, one of the iChat bugs fixed (Setting
status to invisible via AppleScript logs you out of iChat) was one I, (and
probably others) had submitted.
--
"I want to have babies.
You want to have babies?!
It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
But...you can't have babies!
Don't you oppress me!
I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb. Where is the fetus
going to gestate? You're going to keep it in a box?"
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