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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
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On 11/20/24 10:46 AM, Rich wrote:
> 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
>>    NEVER liked JS or Perl ... but that's just me.
>>    Real-world, they seem to do their thing OK.
> 
> 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. DOS was
   better at that.

> The entire language looks like three shit-faced drunk language
> designers teamed up with three stoned off their gourd language
> designers and agreed to create the script language, and each put in
> their own alcohol or mary jane fueled idea of how the language should
> be designed.
> 
> There's absolutely no consistency in anything in that language.  One
> thing one has to pass around are WID's (Window ID's) so that the target
> window which is to receive the "automation" is identified.  Some
> functions have prototypes like this (note, these are made up below):
> 
> getxy(wid, result)
> 
> Others have prototypes like this:
> 
> move_to_x_y(x, y, wid)
> 
> Others are this way
> 
> recolor-window(x, wid, y, color, result)
> 
> Still others use camel case
> 
> getSomethingFromWindows(result, a, b, wid, q)
> 
> Note now "wid" moves around in the prototype list, yet it is needed for
> nearly every call.  Also note the underscore vs. hyphen vs camel case
> names.

   I take it you're also not a fan of Perl  :-)

   Hey, working with X stuff you also need to identify
   screens sometimes ... and they're not always readily
   identified - <something>:2:2

   There is a proliferation of computer langs. A LOT of
   them seem just "unnecessary" - near re-do's of 'C'
   for the most part ... just even weirder syntax to
   justify their existence.