This. I can't remember what it was like before I learned a programming language. I do vividly recall my fights with compilers, however, and imagining trying to

This. I can't remember what it was like before I learned a programming language. I do vividly recall my fights with compilers, however, and imagining trying to guess what Applescript wants in a particular context without reasonable notions of what was going on under the hood, and I would have become a plumber instead. Applescript is horrid. Seriously, every time I try to write something in it, it devolves into Googling for whatever weird, stilted 'natural language' variant is needed in a given context in the best case. The worst case is me wracking my brain for odd ways to write subordinate clauses that might make it happier. Applescript should be used as the definition of a write-only language. People like to bag on Perl, but even if you hate everything about Perl, it is still a vastly more human language than Applescript.