Re: Possible bug with AppScript and Excel?
Re: Possible bug with AppScript and Excel?
- Subject: Re: Possible bug with AppScript and Excel?
- From: Christian Prinoth <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:51:25 +0200
oh, I did not know about Google hiring Guido van Rossum... hope the Apple-Google war does not take another twisted turn.
btw, what do you think about the whole python+appscript setup? can the things I have describe be done in applescript alone? my applescript experience is quite limited...
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 15:55, Philip Aker
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On 2010-07-30, at 04:52:09, Christian Prinoth wrote:
> Basically, python allows to easily handle complex data, doing (semi) serious programming stuff,
Well hmm, I'm glad you said "(semi) serious" because one of the more serious things one can do in any kind of code is XML Schema validation. While Henry Thompson is one of the original XML Schema designers and a python buff, lately, the python-based WC3 schema validator has been falling behind several others now available. Indeed, the python-based WC3 XHTML validator doesn't pick up errors that say the one at <http://schneegans.de/sv/> (a .NET effort) does.
So the observation is that those who take on the same task in other languages (say in C++) have a much greater startup cost, but eventually overtake python because of the greater flexibility and adaptability of the language. I believe the problem lies with the python syntax (and its object model to a certain extent) and the nature of the parser generator used to analyze it because Guido van Rossum seems to be using ANTLR — and that's a top down parser. Top down parsers are logically proven to be less powerful than bottom up ones. Therefore it seems to me that no matter how many kludges a top down parser has to work around its inherent limitations, it seems to me that eventually, they will show up when the data situation becomes really complex.
Whatever the case though, it's going to be really interesting now that Guido works for Google. Theoretically, that would seem to mean that python will have something to do with Android and we will watch a feature battle play out against iOS.
Philip Aker
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