On Dec 17, 2006, at 1:12 AM, David King wrote:
AppleScript was designed for this sort of localisation
Applescript's "language-like" syntax is possibly even more hateful than
Perl's. It's dripping a slightly different KIND of foul evil, but it's
evil never the less.
http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/englishlikeness_monster
Same underlying idea, slightly different horrid mess on top, but the
horrid mess is there regardless.
Pity Larry Wall wasn't a mathematician. People complain bitterly about
APL characters but at least the syntax is simple and unambiguous.
I note that Gruber, like me, likes Javascript. I think that Javascript
has been unfairly maligned... it's tainted by association with the
browser mess. As a programming language it's remarkably well designed.