Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

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.

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.