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…
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.…
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…
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…
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...
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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...