[SVN] REQ: commands choosing output

Chris Thomas chris at cjack.com
Sun Feb 20 18:18:51 UTC 2005


On Feb 20, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> 1) AppleScript requires more support from your end. DO is pretty damn 
> easy to do.
>
> 2) AppleScript is slow. Yes, this is a fairly simple usage, but it 
> would still be much slower than DO

Gotta agree. Doing a good AppleScript implementation requires a lot of 
time for both design and implementation. And shell script is slow 
relative to Perl or Ruby, but AppleScript is _really slow_.

Chris




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