Re: New AppleScript book
Re: New AppleScript book
- Subject: Re: New AppleScript book
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:45:20 -0800
On 12/24/03 12:17 PM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:
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From everything I've read about it (and from reading the sample chapter
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on line), it looks like it will be a hit within its limited market.
If you had been at WWDC 2003, you might have been amazed to see the overflow
standing-room-only attendance at the AppleScript sessions. The attendees
were largely "real" developers (Objective C, C++, Java, etc.) types brand
new to AppleScript. Then there are all the people like those who didn't come
to WWDC. Then the sort of traditional scripters on this list who've been
waiting for something like this since the ASLG was released and we've moved
on to OS X. ("In a Nutshell" doesn't really make it, by common agreement.) I
think O'Reilly is to be commended for filling this gap and taking the gamble
on the size of the market for it. It could be that we'll all be surprised at
what that size turns out to be.
Best of all will be if it helps set up an understanding and expectation of
what AppleScript can really do when well and fully implemented in
applications, so that Cocoa developers, such as were at WWDC, do more than
just "plug in" to the feeble default Cocoa scripting template, and if those
expectations in turn encourage Apple to facilitate the expansion of basic
Cocoa scripting into real, proper AppleScripting "when it's done right", as
described in the book.
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Paul Berkowitz
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