Edge Cases

AppleScript's Glorious Failure

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about why AppleScript is a really awesome language and why it’s basically dead. (And why you should use JSTalk instead.)

Links:

• Why JetBrains (list of companies that use their products)
• Obsolete once-only headers « GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection
• AppleScript « Wikipedia
• William R. Cook « Computer Science Department, University of Texas at Austin
• ACM SIGPLAN History of programming languages Conferences
• HOPL-III (2007)
• History of Programming Languages « Wikipedia
• AppleScript (draft paper, PDF) by William R. Cook « Computer Science Department, University of Texas at Austin
• Connections (TV series) « Wikipedia
• Ruby (programming language) « Wikipedia
• Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns « Stevey’s Blog Rants
• Andrew Pontious tweet: “Looks like I’m having more trouble than expected remembering to use the [] operator for Obj-C dictionary getting/setting.”
• More Trouble with Programming (interview with Bjarne Stroustrup) « Technology Review
• JSTalk

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Disturbing Lack of Curly Braces
• ’60s Flower Child Dream
• You’re This Ignorant Sap!
• Cleave Your App in Two
• The Fun Stuff, the Rant-ish Stuff
• Complicated Feelings About Stroustrup
• A Technology That Needs to Die
• Two Episodes in a Row We’re Talking About Rez
• If You Don’t Care About Security, You’re Basically Done
• I Thought You Said “C++ Lovin’”