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

[Michael Terry]

On 2/20/03 12:39 AM, "Brian C." <dvorak at omnigroup.com> 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>

Yup, AS is a pain. I hope I never come across a tougher language. It's the
first one I tried, and it took a long time to get comfortable with it. I
just thought this was the way it was until I wrote a mini-application in
VBA--in a week--while still a long ways from getting AS. It was a bit of a
revelation. 

This topic comes up from time to time, and there are plenty of people who
actually disagree. I believe, although I don't have any direct proof of
this, that these people are on crack.

Mike