http://somejunkwelike.com/wordpress/2005/02/22/applescript-aggghh/ some junk we like Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-beta3 http://somejunkwelike.com/wordpress/2005/02/22/applescript-aggghh/comment-page-1/#comment-45455 Camels in the Mist » Blog Archive » Grains of Sand Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:56:22 +0000 http://earthorbitdesign.com/wordpress/?p=934#comment-45455 [...] Apple: I stopped being able to count the number of programming languages i know on a single hand many years ago. Why then, does your applescript that has [quote: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/applescript/] “Easy-to-learn English-like syntax.”, read like an ESL comp sci TA come to tutorial after dropping acid? It’s freaking hard to learn. The fact that you can litter a script with arbitrary articles (the word “the” is completely superfluous, as far as i can tell) inspires more confusion, head-on-desk-banging, vomit, and hair loss, than anything that resembles confidence. Your documentation also sucks. Figure it out. plskthxbai. [...] [...] Apple: I stopped being able to count the number of programming languages i know on a single hand many years ago. Why then, does your applescript that has [quote: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/applescript/ “Easy-to-learn English-like syntax.”, read like an ESL comp sci TA come to tutorial after dropping acid? It’s freaking hard to learn. The fact that you can litter a script with arbitrary articles (the word “the” is completely superfluous, as far as i can tell) inspires more confusion, head-on-desk-banging, vomit, and hair loss, than anything that resembles confidence. Your documentation also sucks. Figure it out. plskthxbai. [...]

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