turingcar

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   by turingcar 12y ago

   There has been no statement that AppleScript is going away or being replaced by JavaScript for Automation. This is simply a case of offering users more choices. AppleScript’s primary target audience is first-time and casual programmers. (Of
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   by turingcar 12y ago

   I loved HyperTalk, but my experience with it was that: A. Almost any English sentence was grammatically valid. B. Almost none of those sentences did what you expected. I find AppleScript a more regular language overall. I think the biggest
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   by turingcar 12y ago

   Yes, implementing the object-oriented Apple Event Object Model (the conceptual model used to refer to properties and elements in another application) can be challenging to implement in a non-OO language like C. These days, Cocoa Scripting (
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   by turingcar 12y ago

   For the record, AppleScript is not “natural language programming”; it is merely more similar to English than most programming languages. As with most mainstream programming languages, human terms (usually English) are used for keywords like
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   by turingcar 12y ago

   In fact, you can use either “whose” or “where”, and the AppleScript language guide refers to this as “Filter”: < https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/apples...