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I've always found AppleScript to be a read-only language. It is obvious what it does once written, but writing it is very frustrating as you have to get the phr

I've always found AppleScript to be a read-only language. It is obvious what it does once written, but writing it is very frustrating as you have to get the phrasing just right.

yohanatan 12y ago
Someone should marry Perl & AppleScript: the best read/write language ever invented!
- mehmetemre 12y ago
  or the worst. As Larry Wall said: "The potential for greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil."[1] [1]: http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html PS. I always wanted to quote this :-)
  - yohanatan 12y ago
    True. Actually, it probably wouldn't be too hard to just write AppleScript within Perl to begin with. ;-)
gurkendoktor 12y ago
Which is frustrating for programmers, but pretty neat if you share AppleScript on web boards (which seems to happen a lot) :)