Re: Why these errors?
Re: Why these errors?
- Subject: Re: Why these errors?
- From: LuKreme <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:42:36 -0700
On 10 Feb 2014, at 04:45 , 2551 <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 10 Feb 2014, at 01:46, Christian Boyce <email@hidden> wrote:
>> This has always been a weak part of my scripting game and I need to retrain my mind on it.
>
> Been there. Most of us learn AS through trial and error and leave the theoretical underpinnings aside
There are underpinnings? Well, at least they are only theoretical! :)
> for as long as we can get away with it. Except for anything but occassional scripting use, however, this strategy is a mistake. It leads to increasing frustration as you try to do more complex things, instead of increasing mastery as you get greater experience.
To be fair, most dabblers in Applescript never get beyond the occasional scripting use.
> Fortunately, there is an answer. Buy, read and re-read Matt Neuburg’s ‘AppleScript: The Definitive Guide’.
>
> http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596005573.do
>
> Don’t be put off by the pub date, as 90% if not more of what is in the book remains true to this day. It will, like some kind of religious text, totally re-orient your understanding of AS.
And also, Matt's a decent guy and deserves some of your cash. Not a lot, just some.
> No doubt someone will pop-up to contest this, but I’d be willing to bet almost all if not all the “gurus” on this forum have a copy of it.
And even some of us lesser beings.
--
They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and
you know, they've all made themselves a part of something and they can
talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? "I killed the president of
Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?"
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