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Exploring Expect
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Author: Don Libes
List Price: $34.95
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ISBN: 1565920902
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (01 December, 1994)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 25,384
Average Customer Rating: 3.58 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
No other choice
If you are a beginner and you survived using this book, consider it as an accomplishment. This book is quite difficult to understand, it takes a lot of testing. Even a short example cannot quite explained by the author properly. The way the author explains something he thinks that all the audience are like John Ousterhout. This book gave me a headache browsing back and forth looking for some answers. However, I will give Don Libes a 2* because of the effort. Too bad there is really no alternative out there. Once I learned Expect from trial and errors and more headaches I can probably write a better one.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Anticipate a long and painful reading session
I bought the book because I needed to create a script with Expect quickly, and nothing on the web really took me step-by-step through what I needed to do. Well, the book is disorganized and anything but to-the-point. I ended up spending a lot of time extracting the essentials, and I had to go on the web for supplementary material anyway! But, as others have noted, there's not much else out there.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Your only alternative, buy it....
This is one of the worst books, written about one of the worst programming languages. The information is scattered and difficult to harvest. Understanding this book and writing code in Expect is a huge headache. However, if you don't buy the book, forget about ever writing reasonably complex programs in Expect. I rated the book five stars because, while not a good book by any standard, it is infinitely better than having no reference at all (which is perhaps why it is so difficult to find information about Expect on the web). It's well worth the [money], but expect to spend some time learning about Expect.
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