{"id":1109,"date":"2005-09-27T13:49:40","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T17:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/the-english-likeness-monster\/"},"modified":"2005-09-27T13:49:40","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T17:49:40","slug":"the-english-likeness-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/the-english-likeness-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"The English-Likeness Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2005\/09\/englishlikeness_monster\">John Gruber<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2005\/09\/englishlikeness_monster\">\r\n<p>In a &#8220;normal&#8221; programming language, the equivalent to &#8220;<code>path to fonts\r\nfolder from user domain<\/code>&#8221; might be something like:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<pre><code>path_to(\"fonts folder\", \"user domain\")\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\r\n\r\n<p>And the equivalent to &#8220;<code>path of fonts folder of user domain<\/code>&#8221; might be:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<pre><code>user_domain.fonts_folder.path\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\r\n\r\n<p>The point being that in most languages, these two calls don&#8217;t look at\r\nall similar. Which is a good thing, because they <em>aren&#8217;t<\/em> at all\r\nsimilar: one is a global command taking two parameters, the other is a\r\nproperty of a property of an object. AppleScript&#8217;s slavish devotion to\r\nEnglish-likeness, on the other hand, gives us two very different\r\nsyntax constructs that read, to humans, as though they&#8217;re semantically\r\nidentical.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: In a &#8220;normal&#8221; programming language, the equivalent to &#8220;path to fonts folder from user domain&#8221; might be something like: path_to(\"fonts folder\", \"user domain\") And the equivalent to &#8220;path of fonts folder of user domain&#8221; might be: user_domain.fonts_folder.path The point being that in most languages, these two calls don&#8217;t look at all similar. Which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}