Re: uneditable [OT]
Re: uneditable [OT]
- Subject: Re: uneditable [OT]
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 11:51:35 -0700
- Thread-topic: uneditable [OT]
On 5/7/13 11:23 AM, "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
wrote:
> You could probably save a lot of time by not posting pointless polemics
> to mailing lists. ;)
>
> AppleScript was designed to be "English-like" (US-English-like, at any
> rate) and, originally, a few other-likes. It was aimed at Mac owners who
> may not necessarily have programming experience but who want to put
> together automation sequences for things they do regularly on their
> computers. (It predates Automator by several years.) For these purposes,
> 'set x to 1' ticks all the boxes. 'x = 1' ticks none of them.
>
> It shouldn't be beyond those gifted with the power of scripting to write
> scripts which expand their preferred forms of terseness to actual
> AppleScript code, leaving them free to worry about other things.
Please let this be the last word. Nigel has said everything that needs to be
said. Take his words as wisdom.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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