Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

From	Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date	2025-01-14 12:03 +0000
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On 2024-11-21, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 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.
BeOS and Haiku with the Hey command disagree.

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