Re: AS Library Question
Re: AS Library Question
- Subject: Re: AS Library Question
- From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 17:01:02 +0900
> On Dec 21, 2015, at 16:38, Jon Pugh <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Dec 20, 2015, at 9:36 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I think a lot of AS users expect AS to be very simple and when they hit the first bump in the road they give up, hence the lack of wide acceptance for AS. To fix that and get more people to be seriously interested in AS, there are only 2 solutions. One is community based quality documentation and the other one is standardized recommended practices (in the form of a library or not).
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> So I don’t really think a library is sufficient, although I encourage everyone to write their own library of code and reuse it as often as you can. I’ve made my SmartString library source available at <http://www.seanet.com/~jonpugh/software/SmartString.applescript> for doing string manipulation in AppleScript. I’ve had several people tell me that it has helped them, and I use it a lot for my string parsing needs. It’s based on a 1984 Scientific American article by Niklaus Wirth about a better way to manipulate strings.
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> So that’s my current contribution to the open-source library effort.
I just heard of your library in this thread. If I had searched for "string manipulation Applescript" I wouldn't have found it.
https://startpage.com/do/search?query=string manipulation Applescript&ext=safari
If good practices/contributions are not documented somewhere they're lost and we have to reinvent the wheel every time.
That's why we need "community organising" (sorry if that sounds political).
There are splendid tools now to organise contribution, Github etc. If we want new developers interested in AS as you say is needed, we need to let them know that stuff exists.
Jean-Christophe
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