Re: Conversion of ISO Date String to AppleScript Date
Re: Conversion of ISO Date String to AppleScript Date
- Subject: Re: Conversion of ISO Date String to AppleScript Date
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:32:44 +0000
On 06/03/2017 18:18, Stockly, Ed wrote:
When that was "invented" and first implemented, none of these other
methods were available. Same with some of the other handlers I've written
and used for years without a flaw, suiting my purpose to a T.
I prefer my "roll-your-own" solutions (as you call them, I call them
AppleScript) because I know exactly what's happening inside, I can step
through them in SD if need be to track every variable, and they don't have
overhead required to handle every possible version or aspect which I don't
need.
I also don't like relying on a Black Box process, where I send data in,
have no idea what it's method or logic is in handling the data and just
spits out a result. Especially when that's not from a reputable software
developer I trust, or from someone with an agenda I don't agree with.
Your inflexible Dunning-Kruger thinking is not my problem, Ed. Your
whole beloved AppleScript language, beloved scriptable applications, and
beloved macOS is nothing BUT pricey, proprietary, and potentially
insecure Black Boxes all the way down. Funny how you don't seem to have
a problem with *those*, yet somehow my hated offering—which is totally
free, open, and readable by anyone, and mostly just wraps round the same
macOS black boxes that AppleScript and scriptable apps already wrap in
order to make them easy and familiar for AppleScripters to use, are
somehow totally beyond the pale. Double standards, much?
Hey, I get it, you choose to use your own amateur code rather than
professional code developed and tested by (usually) highly skilled
expert programmers. And that ostrichism *is* your perogative. It's a bit
fucking rich though attempting to drag every other AppleScript user down
to your own subsistence-level standards out of pathological
micromanagement and terror of not being the bestest AppleScripter in all
the AppleScript land.
Protip: get over yourself. You're nothing special and neither am I.
Personally I *know and appreciate* just how extraordinarily blessed I am
to be able to stand on the shoulders of many, many giants, and build on
that incredible foundation solutions I could never have made on my own.
And doing what I can to pay that forward, so that more people can
benefit and so one day perhaps do the same for others too, while all you
do is snipe out of your personal insecurities.
If you could write better, why didn't you? If you think Apple should've
written these libraries, why weren't you the one rallying everyone to
file Radar tickets requesting it. AppleScript should've already provided
us all these commands TWO DECADES AGO. There's a huge and blatant need
for them: half the goddamned AppleScript forums are spent endlessly
rechurning this crapwork because Sal &co spent two decades studiously
ignoring thousands of AppleScript users' everyday pain caused by these
basic omissions. I rolled up my sleeves and finally did the damn job
myself because not a single other person on the planet, inside OR
outside Apple, could be arsed to do it. You included.
Were I the sort of person who was in it for the popular adulation ("Hi,
Sal!"), I'd tell you to fuck of for your ingratidude. But I'm not, so
you can fuck off for trying to drag the rest of the world down to your
level just so you can feel like you're in control. Which is the same
thing I tell every arrogant, insecure, control-freak Real Programmer who
drives us billions of users to misery with their crap for exactly the
same reasons.
Think I'm gonna take a break now. Talk is cheap, but at least I always
put *my* mouth where my money is too. Let's see who makes it into
PrintWeek first.
has
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