Why another scripting language for the desktop?
Stuart Langridge recently wrote about a new scripting language he was developing for the desktop. His language is inspired heavily by AppleScript and allows you to write things like:
tell screensaver to lock
tell tomboy to createnamednote with ‘My Named Note‘
This might sound like a good idea at first but I see a bunch of problems with that approach.
His idea is that you design a very simple language to access D-BUS resources to allow people to connect those resources in a simple way "without knowing how to program". This request pops up quite a lot: To provide scripting to the masses so to speak. Building a "simple" language for specific tasks is not that special, it happens a lot, but Mr. Langridge's idea is based on a few wrong assumptions:
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