On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 07:30 am, Jeff Lowrey wrote:
AppleScript, on the whole, has a shorter learning time FOR A PROGRAMMER to be productive than Perl does.Given that any language will try to provide the functionality that the user culture currently requires of it, all languages have common themes. The implemetations of those themes will differ, so yes if you're familiar with programming concepts you have a leg up as it were. But the questions to ask is do you feel that the time you spend grocking AppleScript as it doggedy stretches the 'like English' anology to the boundries of patience, is time well spent? I don't, and I suspect this reason is precisely why Apple makes sure you have to use it for IPC in Acqua rather than leaving a nice programatic interface.
Robin
