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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:14:58 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 02:20:58 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

> On 11/20/24 10:46 AM, Rich wrote:
>>
>> If JS or Perl are your yardstick for "never liked" you must never have
>> attempted to write an AutoHotKey script to automate something on a
>> windows machine.
> 
> Tried a hotkey daemon once, DOS-era, but eventually bought one writ
> by better programmers. Automated Winders ... again a real pain in the
> ass.

GUIs were never designed to be automated. Which is why trying to do so is 
fiddly, fragile and just plain unreliable.

> DOS was better at that.

Command line, of course -- naturally better for automation purposes. 
Though the DOS one was a pitiful toy reimplementation of what was, and 
still is, available on *nix systems.