Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

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.