Re: New AppleScript book
Re: New AppleScript book
- Subject: Re: New AppleScript book
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:12:47 -0600
On 12/24/03 2:45 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <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.
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If you had been at WWDC 2003, you might have been amazed to see the overflow
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standing-room-only attendance at the AppleScript sessions. The attendees
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were largely "real" developers (Objective C, C++, Java, etc.) types brand
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new to AppleScript. Then there are all the people like those who didn't come
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to WWDC. Then the sort of traditional scripters on this list who've been
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waiting for something like this since the ASLG was released and we've moved
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on to OS X. ("In a Nutshell" doesn't really make it, by common agreement.) I
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think O'Reilly is to be commended for filling this gap and taking the gamble
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on the size of the market for it. It could be that we'll all be surprised at
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what that size turns out to be.
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Best of all will be if it helps set up an understanding and expectation of
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what AppleScript can really do when well and fully implemented in
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applications, so that Cocoa developers, such as were at WWDC, do more than
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just "plug in" to the feeble default Cocoa scripting template, and if those
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expectations in turn encourage Apple to facilitate the expansion of basic
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Cocoa scripting into real, proper AppleScripting "when it's done right", as
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described in the book.
And maybe The Jobs will require that all Apple-branded software be
scriptable.
john
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