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Re: Reference books


  • Subject: Re: Reference books
  • From: Peter Baxter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:36:02 +1000

Actually I quite like Matt's book: Applescript - The Definitive guide, although you are right, it is probably good as a second book after some experience has been gained.


On 10/06/2007, at 8:19 AM, J. Stewart wrote:

On 6/9/07 at 4:38 AM, Ruth Bygrave <email@hidden> spake thusly:

Avoid at all costs:
Applescript in a Nutshell, by Matt Neuberg (O'Reilly). It's not that it's not probably a very good book, but I've looked at the contents/excerpts on the website, and it would have frightened me away when starting out. I will probably get this eventually -- if I picked it up now after mucking around with Applescript for over a year, I'd get something out of it. When you're at the


FYI, Matt didn't write this book, Bruce W. Perry did. Matt wrote "Applescript - The Definitive Guide". The second edition of which is IMHO the best one currently available.

JBS
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