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I tend to stick with Applescript simply because I always find the syntax of Javascript pretty daunting by comparison. It can make revisiting a script you haven't had to edit in a year or two somewhat easier. (Provided you name your variables and comment well, of course.)

e.g. it is pretty simple to just read what is going on in stuff like this:

set pStylesList to every paragraph style whose name does not contain "[" 
repeat with thisStyle in pStylesList 
	--Append "-old" to all current para styles except default 
	set name of thisStyle to name of thisStyle & "-old" 
end repeat



Which is certainly not to say there's not more power locked in Javascript. There are a lot of rudimentary things, such as sorting that aren't part of the basic AS syntax, alas...

And a way to set a variable quicker would be nice! x := 0 like Pascal has, for "power" users or something.