Re: collectdata
Re: collectdata
- Subject: Re: collectdata
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 13:34:10 +1100
On 9 Mar 2017, at 7:37 am, Thomas Fischer <email@hidden> wrote:
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> AppleScript (as I cherish it) comes with a promise of readability and accessibility that I can’t find in AppleScriptObjC.
AppleScriptObjC isn't what was the originators of AppleScript had in mind, certainly. But then they probably didn't envisage the rather parlous reality we have today, with incomplete and broken implementations, if any, the norm.
Nonetheless AppleScript has always been a minimalist language, relying on outside help to get things done. I don't think there'd be too many people who would dispute that adding the "do shell script" command to the language was anything but a boon. AppleScriptObjC goes a step further and uses AppleScript terminology and bridges common classes.
Of course, all things being equal, I'd much rather use plain AppleScript (and with fixes for its many problems). It's just that things are not always equal. Stuff isn't accessible -- basics like tags in the Finder for example -- and stuff is buggy -- System Events can't even get file names right. And sometimes time matters -- a lot of the implementations are too slow.
> No, that’s not AppleScript for me.
I wish I could afford to be such a purist...
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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>
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