Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Apple Previews New Script Editor

Posted by pudge on from the for-people-who-still-use-applescript dept.

DrC writes "Apple has released a preview update to the venerable Script Editor, rewritten using Cocoa. It looks like an impressive upgrade." The preview release is included with the Dec 2002 Developer Tools as a separate install, too.

2 of 21 comments (clear)

  1. The editor? by Trusty+Penfold · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    We don't need an upgrade to the editor, we need an upgrade to the scripting language/engine itself!

    Come on, get rid of the slow, clunky, and limited thing that's there now and replace it with something decent, like perl.

    1. Re:The editor? by bbum · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Perl blows. What a shit language. Perfect for what it was made for-- simple text filters-- and absolute crap for "heavy lifting" or any other general purpose programming solution.

      Shit. Use a freakin' language that you can actually *read* like, say, Python, Ruby, Lisp, Obj-C, SmallTalk, or basically anything but some line-noise-derived-pile-of-crap.

      (venting -- had to maintain some perl recently. Barforama.)