Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- Subject: Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- From: "Dennis W. Manasco" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 05:21:17 -0500
At 5:33 PM -0400 5/8/05, Gary (Lists) wrote:
...
I'm sure my 8th grade English teacher would love to take a red pen
to this paragraph.
...
The first and last sentences, taken together, make a compelling (and
by that I mean 'ridiculous') argument.
...
Uhh...
Hasn't your reply successfully achieved sophistry?
The quoted post seemed logically sui-argumentum to me.
The first and last sentences reiterate the theme. Thematic
reiteration within an argument is a proven, and usefully, persuasive
rhetorical technique.
Personally, I would have appended the ultimate sentence to the
penultimate, with commas, in a formal paper, but splitting sentences
(and even paragraphs) for effect and readability is common in online
missives.
I've just done it with the last three paragraphs; to emphasize
individual points.
Aside rhetorical arguments, I have to agree with Elliotte to some
degree: AppleScript syntax has a lot of bizarre pitfalls.
Regarding the definition of "programmer":
To say that someone who programs in AppleScript isn't a programmer
is, to my understanding of the word, ridiculous: Programming is
writing in a defined language, AppleScript is a defined language,
q.e.d. writing in AppleScript is programming.
-=-Dennis
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