[DigitalJack]

I like the project, but I really don't like applescript. In programming languages, it seems there is a tension between easy-to-write and easy-to-read. And I suppose a fork in the continuum with easy-to-read-for-novices and easy-to-read-for-programmers.

applescript went overboard on the easy-to-read-for-novices at severe cost to easy-to-write.

[pmarreck]

What's hard to read about it? Obviously (to me), those are all event handlers. Not sure why (or if?) you have to define the ones that don't actually do anything, though.

[saghm]

I'm pretty sure he's saying that they made it too easy to read, at the expense of being easy to write (with the premise that these are opposite ends of a spectrum stated above)

[josh64]

FWIW you can use JavaScript now instead of AppleScript.