AppleScript: Our Friend. My (sometimes) Enemy. Why you should learn it.

[James Spahr]

Applescript is down right hostile to people who know how to code in my 
formal languages, this (IMHO) is why usertalk had such a significant 
following -- it was the only other language for a long time that was a 
full fledged OSA language. Now we have javascript as well.

That said, for small scripts applescript is not without it's charms.

On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 03:39  AM, Brian C. wrote:

>  <off-topic rant>
> For the record, AppleScript is probably the third most uncomfortable 
> language I have *ever* encountered. Maybe second, depending on whether 
> Haskell or AppleScript irks me more at the moment. I'm un-learning the 
> traditional coding syntax and conventions as I go along learning 
> AppleScript, which makes simple things for someone raised on AS not so 
> simple for me. I HATE that! But it's better than writing prolog code 
> back in college ever was. Does anyone else with experience with other 
> languages feel this way, or am I just a big AppleScript bigot?
>  </off-topic rant>

James.