Tuesday, March 1, 2005

Language Overload
This evening I worked in about half a dozen languages, fought for every single line of code, and everything I did (including sending a stinking email.)

To recap:

  • XML/Plist (to make a BBEdit Codeless Language Module)
  • Applescript (needed to modify a Selection To Glossary Applescript I (partially) wrote one day for BBEdit 7. Needed to get it working in BBEdit 8, and get it actually working.)
  • (pdksh) Shell (in the process of committing my changed glossary entries, I got wondering if I could use !! to execute the last command. In pdksh this is not !!, it is r - and it doesn't work (well) when coupled with sudo. Ideas in the comments would be appreciated
  • Python (our CVS/Root batch information changer errors out in an weird edge case... well, it used to, before I fixed it)

I think that's it. Sometimes technology just feels like it isn't worth it...