Sujet : Re: Is Programming Obsolete?
De : rich (at) *nospam* example.invalid (Rich)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 07. Apr 2024, 17:51:22
Autres entêtes
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Ben Collver <
bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:
But the people who say they don't want to program are wrong. The
proof is that they buy "macro" languages, such as QuickKeys. These
are abysmally poor programming languages,
Indeed, they are. Made use of "AutoHotKey" some years back at $job to
automate a custom GUI program for a repetitive task mgmt. wanted done, but
naturally the GUI program authors had never provided any ability to
perform.
AutoHotKey is the most absymal "programming" languge, maybe second only
to Brainfuck [1]. If there was, ever, any 'design' to the language, it
was either "designed" to be a massive screwup, or it was "designed" by
15 rabid hyenas who built only one piece and intentionally went their
own way with how to build that piece. Not one built in function was
similar in any way to any other built in function. Parameter orders
differed for every one (even when groups of them took the same initial
set of parameters), and IIRC some required double quotes for delimiting
strings, but others required single quotes as string delimiters. Some
names where snake case (move_window) while others were camel cased
(DeleteWindow) with seeming no rhyme or reason why.
I managed to accomplish the 'automation' task, but AutoHotKey the
language was a constant source of bad juju in getting to that end
state.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Fuck (and if one is attempting
to program in Brainfuck, the very name should indicate one is in for a
rought time).