At 13:04 +0100 2002.03.12, Bart Lateur wrote:
>It depends on what you want to do. AppleScript is extremely slow as a
>generic programming language, but OTOH, in order to control external
>apps, calling an Applescript embedded in a Perl script takes a very long
>time to compile -- which will have t
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:15:46 -0800, Crook, Richard W wrote:
>Just a quick question/survey. I'm taking over an system written mostly in
>AppleScript and some MacPerl. Is it worth sticking with the AppleScript or
>should I port it over to MacPerl. I suppose the answer will be obvious
>considering
At 15:15 -0800 3/11/2002, Crook, Richard W wrote:
>Just a quick question/survey. I'm taking over an system written mostly in
>AppleScript and some MacPerl. Is it worth sticking with the AppleScript or
>should I port it over to MacPerl. I suppose the answer will be obvious
>considering the list I'
Just a few updates to what you say here ...
At 16:02 -0800 2002.03.11, Daschbach, John L wrote:
>&MacPerl'DoAppleScript("${script}");
A much better way to do this is:
MacPerl::DoAppleScript($script);
' instead of :: as package separator was deprecated a long time ago. You
don't need
I have found there are things I can do in Applescript that I can't do in
MacPerl and more so the opposite way around. What is nice is that using
AppleScript from MacPerl is mostly a pretty good solution when you need to
do Applescrit things. One way to glue them together is to use the Script
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on 3/11/02 4:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said:
> Just a quick question/survey. I'm taking over an system written mostly in
> AppleScript and some MacPerl. Is it worth sticking with the AppleScript or
> should I port it over to MacPerl. I suppose the answer will be obvious
> considering t
At 15:15 -0800 2002.03.11, Crook, Richard W wrote:
>Just a quick question/survey. I'm taking over an system written mostly in
>AppleScript and some MacPerl. Is it worth sticking with the AppleScript or
>should I port it over to MacPerl. I suppose the answer will be obvious
>considering the list I
