[TxMt] math bundle feature request

[Timothy Bates]

> In some sense this is really a shortcoming of AppleScript. No
> developer should possibly have to know what name a menu item shows to
> the user, really.

I guess that's not AppleScript - it's System Events which is has an
applescriptable interface.
 
> In general, AppleScript is really a last resort...It is really very slow

There's a bit of overhead in context switching, but compiled AppleScript
itself is not too shabby.

> for simple math calculations I would
> really recommend the Ruby or the bc way.

Indeed. php also has good math library built in, including arbitrary
precision stuff. 

I think, given that all OS X system have cmd line php working out of the
box, that it is underused as a scripting language for TextMate. There are a
ton of easy to use functions to aid the scripter, and it is a very easy to
learn language, in my experience.

There are lots of books on PHP 4-5 (amazon is your friend), helper apps like

    http://www.artissoftware.com/phpfi/

And, as a freebee, you learn a nice web-programming language

tim