You have now lost any/all opportunities you may have had to convince me to accept your way of thinking about anything. I was considering use of your libraries, but no longer.
You are your own worst enemy. I have set an Outlook Mail rule to delete all mail received from you. I find most of your posts offensive and inappropriate, and I don't want to see any more of them.
It is fine to be passionate about your beliefs of what is the best method, best software, or best course of action. However when you indiscriminately defame others, you negate any technical arguments you may have been trying to make.
This is unfortunate. Has will be Has and if you're willing to sift through the vitriol he often makes a worthwhile contribution.
I have his libraries installed on all my macs. I don't hate them, as he suggested, and may begin to use them for things that are not simple for me to do in AppleScript.
But, again, for the things I need every day (working with dates and text mainly) they only go so far to meet my needs, and the scripting I need to do work with them is no more complicated than the scripting I need to do to work without them. Since I like
to be in control, my own personal preference is to roll my own, and that's been working just fine for me.
I hope I'm making it clear, that I'm not criticizing his libraries, but I am reinforcing the need for non-programmers like me to be able to do AppleScripting as part of a workflow. My needs are so specific and unique, that it would be impossible for any
library widely distributed to meet those needs. And programmers with the skills of, say Shane, or Has, or Jon, or even many of the top applescripters on this list (which does not include me, BTW) are not a dime-a-dozen, and you can't expect them to be on hand
for every unique programming need at every place that uses macs in a workflow. AppleScripters need to be able to do it for themselves.
And I'm not criticizing Has, either. Although I'll say again he could probably benefit from reading Dale Carnegie
or even Norman Vincent Peale
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