Re: DropScript confusion about cwd

2003-07-12 Thread Yvon Thoraval
Le samedi, 12 juil 2003, à 17:25 Europe/Paris, Steven Bach a écrit : But I fully agree with Chris that it is purely a matter of opinion whether Perl is hard compared to AS, and I would add that programming backgrounds, learning styles and other factors are likely to come into play. May I add m

Re: DBD::Pg via cpan

2003-07-12 Thread David Wheeler
On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 08:47 PM, Chris wrote: Am I missing something? I get a failed install of DBD::Pg via CPAN. The tests terminate with this report: Please run `make test TEST_VERBOSE=1` and send the output of that test run to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, David -- David Wheeler

DBD::Pg via cpan

2003-07-12 Thread Chris
Am I missing something? I get a failed install of DBD::Pg via CPAN. The tests terminate with this report: Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed --- t/00basic.t0 5?? ?? %

carbon events

2003-07-12 Thread David Ackerman
I am just starting to poke around Mac::Carbon and note that the old Mac::Events module is not present anymore. And the doc's indicate that there are no plans to add it. I am trying to use FSpIterateDirectory (SPEC, MAXLEVELS, ITERATEFILTER, YOURDATAPTR) from Mac::MoreFiles, which only returns

Re: DropScript confusion about cwd

2003-07-12 Thread Jeff Lowrey
At 10:25 AM -0500 7/12/03, Steven Bach wrote: Well, that's flat-out ridiculous. Perl is HARD compared to Applescript. That is a matter of opinion. Actually, it's NOT a matter of opinion. Many people have differing opinions, but that's not the same thing. It's a matter of marketing, flat

Re: DropScript confusion about cwd

2003-07-12 Thread Steven Bach
Well, that's flat-out ridiculous. Perl is HARD compared to Applescript. That is a matter of opinion. Actually, it's NOT a matter of opinion. Many people have differing opinions, but that's not the same thing. It's a matter of marketing, flat out. ... However, AppleScript is a "scripting" la

Re: DropScript confusion about cwd

2003-07-12 Thread Robin
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 c