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The previous edition of this book reached store shelves over ten years ago. In the computer and computer book worlds, that’s an eternity. Or two.
Eventually, however, the technology passed the book by, and the title went out of print at the original publisher, Random House. Despite the fact that parts of the book became outdated as early as the release of Mac OS 8, my loyal readers continued to recommend it to others who wanted to learn AppleScript. The demand was so great that I arranged to get the second edition reprinted through a print-on-demand publisher.
In the meantime, my writing focus had shifted to Web-related scripting technologies, particularly JavaScript and Dynamic HTML, where I wrote three different titles spread across eight editions since 996. I also devoted more than a year of research and writing to the subject of spam in a recent book titled Spam Wars. All through that period, in the back of my mind, I hoped one day to return to AppleScript and bring the old book up to date. Although I had written a few scripts in the intervening years for my own use, I had not been monitoring the changes to AppleScript from one OS release to the next. I knew that to do the right job on an update, I’d have to operate in catch-up mode, and practically teach myself again, just as I did for the very first edition. This “to-do” list item nagged at my conscience for years. |