On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Tim Showalter wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Chris Newman wrote:
On the other hand, I'm not sure we should dismiss human readability
completely. When might be able to find a reasonable compromise where the
script is machine readable, but something that wouldn't be too hard for
the average human to hand edit. I think Applescript is a reasonable
example of this sort of syntax.
I have avoided applescript to this point in my life. Can you give a
syntactic overview of the language?
It reads roughly like English. Minimal syntatic characters. Newlines are
used as statement terminators (there's a symbol to indicate the next
line is a continuation). Mostly infix notation. As a programmer I always
had trouble getting the for/of/by/to/whatever prepositions right. But
non-programmers seem to like it.