| Let us not begin a flame war here.
Is there useful info in the book, yes, tons, is there missing and out of date info, yes. Was the fact that changes were forthcoming to applescript a secret to the author? No, Would the publication date the book have been put significantly? No, eight months. Book publication takes years. Snow leopard and automator/applescript, snow leopard version, have been in production for years. So no, I'm not ignoring publication lead times.
Releasing a book that you know will be dated only eight months after it's publication is tacky. Sorry, I'm not being unreasonable to be >annoyed< - annoyed mind you, not angry, not screaming and yelling, just annoyed. If you don't see that, it leaves me at a loss for words.
Al
On Oct 29, 2009, at 3:40 PM, John C. Welch wrote:
On 10/29/09 3:34 PM, "Alan Alpar" <email@hidden> wrote:
It really annoys me that Sal, who is the head of applescript at apple would knowingly release a book that would become dated within months. I'd grown to like Sal, watching his segments on Macbreak (not to be confused with Macbreak <some other word or phrase here>) But with the changes to the language and new features of snow leopard automator, and knowing full well they would happen as it is his department creating the changes there was no reason the book couldn't have been updated for snow leopard and the book then released to coincide with snow leopard. The way it's been done is SO MICROSOFT.
Yes, because there’s nothing in that book that’s valid or useful now.
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