Re: Basic Guide to Scripting Terms?
Re: Basic Guide to Scripting Terms?
- Subject: Re: Basic Guide to Scripting Terms?
- From: email@hidden (Michael Sullivan)
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:12:49 -0400
- Organization: Business Card Express of Connecticut
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Small correction to Michael's otherwise excellent post. Danny Goodman's book
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does not cover Finder scripting, as it was released before OS 9 and the
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advent of the scriptable Finder.
I wonder if you have the first edition -- mine is the second 1998, and
it contains a 50 page chapter on just scripting the scriptable Finder.
BTW, the Finder is scriptable in OS 8.5.1. I know, I've written scripts
for it there. I'm pretty sure it was scriptable in part as early as
8.1.
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It sounds like you were looking for a more general programming book, which
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sounds like a great idea to me, for the same reasons Michael lists. When you
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find one, I'd like to know ;)
Yeah, I apologize for not really giving a good example, but I'm not too
familiar with what's out there. I've got copies of some classic titles
from the mid-late 80s that I cut my teeth on, but they are awfully
bit-twiddly and almost completely ignorant of OO (much of the meat is
about trying to achieve *some* of the goals of OO before the hardware
and software tools to do true OO and generic programming efficiently
became widely available to the typical enthusiast or commercial
programmer). I wouldn't recommend them to someone new unless they've
been updated recently. Most of them espouse methods that the authors
almost certainly no longer use.
I've also got some more recent titles that focus on C++, since I've been
learning that. The closest thing I can come up with out of my current
library is _The Practice of Programming_, Kernighan and Pike. But IMO,
that assumes even more knowledge and experience than the AS Language
Guide, so I'm not sure it's a good place to start.
Michael
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