Scripting with SatImage Part 1
by Jose R. C.Cruz
Aug, 2010 Issue
Article Synopsis
One of the appeals of AppleScript is its approachable, easy to use language syntax. It does not intimidate users with bizarre word constructs like those found in Perl. Nor does it confuse them with inconsistent syntax constructs like those that plague bash shell scripts. It is, to Apple's point of view, the scripting language for the rest of us. Yet, some of us have to work with data of a scientific or technical nature. We may find AppleScript unable to handle such data because it lacks the means to do so. For these cases, we have to rely on the SatImage scripting addition.
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