Completely agree. A balance is needed between the tenseness of Perl and the verbosity of AppleScript. Too compact, and the language becomes a pain to read — alt

Completely agree. A balance is needed between the tenseness of Perl and the verbosity of AppleScript. Too compact, and the language becomes a pain to read — although I am sure the author feels clever at having accomplished so much in so little code. On the other side, too verbose and it is a pain to write and read. I absolutely hate reading through or writing pages upon pages of code to accomplish a trivial task. Perhaps that is the reason languages like Python have been so successful. They seem to strike a good balance. I am not suggesting they are perfect by any means — they have their own fair share of compromises, but they do the job well enough. And I certainly don’t want to be writing COBOL in 21st century. :-)