My Incompatibility with AppleScript

Have a look at the following, which is the AppleScript code needed to move a selected message(s) in Apple Mail to another folder:

property target_mailbox : "@Waiting for..."
property target_account : "Work"

using terms from application "Mail"
	on perform mail action with messages the_selection
		if the_selection = {} then
			beep
			return
		end if
		tell application "Mail"
			repeat with i from 1 to (count of the_selection)
				set mailbox of (item i of the_selection) to mailbox target_mailbox of account target_account
			end repeat
		end tell
	end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from

using terms from application "Mail"
	on run
		tell application "Mail" to set sel to selection
		tell me to perform mail action with messages (sel)
	end run
end using terms from

What is it with me and AppleScript? I can achieve just about anything I want in PHP, without having to refer much to examples. But in a million years I wouldn't have been able to write the above from scratch.

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