Reading "AppleScript, the definitive guide"
Reading "AppleScript, the definitive guide"
- Subject: Reading "AppleScript, the definitive guide"
- From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 08:49:39 +0900
Ok, I tried and I failed. I read the book *super* seriously until page 150 and
then I decided that the book was not for me.
Neuburg is honest, he writes on page 149 that SICP is the best computer book
ever written, and he is not the only one to think like this. What I fail to
understand is if he thinks that way, why did he not even try to emulate what
made SICP that good?
It is fine to write books for the 1%ers. The people who really get why it is
important to nest or not nest script object definitions in handlers in script
object definitions again and again, or whatever. But really, in what world is
*that* what people call "a thorough introduction to AppleScript basics"? And
why does that have to be what the first 150 pages are about?
I am neither "new" to Applescript nor do I feel like I know everything about
the language. If those are the only 2 targets of the book, as the back cover
page seems to suggest, then I should have been warned. But really, advertising
that book as *the* place to go for new users is an insult to new users.
I'm hoping my next buy will be more useful for somebody who want to actually
thoroughly learn the language and *then* understand the big picture.
Jean-Christophe Helary
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@brandelune http://mac4translators.blogspot.com
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