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Re: New AppleScript book


  • Subject: Re: New AppleScript book
  • From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:58:28 -0700

At 15:22 -0800 12/12/03, j.e.b. wrote:
>I have a 'decent' background with PHP/MySQL and most web related languages
>(XHTML/HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) - any hope for me?

You know full well that such experience is probably the worst thing you can have for making intellectual contact with the flavor of AppleScript.

Nothing in AS behaves like a canonical programming language. Latin, or perhaps Sanskrit, would be a better preparation.

--

Applescript syntax is like English spelling:
Roughly, but not thoroughly, thought through.
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