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I just wrote a 193 line Macro for my employer - I enjoyed writing it.

Every language has its weak points - I'm not sure why you're here if that's all you care about.

Well, AHK is aimed at the Non-programmer. I wonder how many Non-programmers ever know what a debugger & ide is ... ... ... but for those that do, there is always SciTE4AutoHotkey.

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Yes, sorry sir.

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You are a BDSM guy, i believe. There are a lot of that type around this forum. And it ok to get fun from things that you like. But fun is not the same as creation and production.
Cause of strong sides? There are lot of languages and platforms that got nothing weak sides in comparsion to AHK, as languages. They are only lack of such graceful framework. AHK as language is a rough single-wheel bicycle in the middle of the highway.

Python is realy grateful to novice, easy-to-start and usefull in real world language. AHK in comparsion to it is nothing and only made novice to learn different ugly constructions and another useless language. AHK was my first lang in 15, and i may say, if it was any other language all things were gone much easier.
If you do not understand why need normal ide and testing enviroment - nothing to do here. Move along.

Ditto ...

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Saved to dropbox for future use, thank you for you useful contribution to the prolonged livelihood of our forums jethrow.

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Some of the code I write will not work without it.

I need to ask sorry, cause i said nothing new in comparsion to majkinetor already said 3 years ago. Actualy i did not read topic before post my revelations, my mistake.

@jethrow
Nice picture. Love it.

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The ability to use AHK meaningfully and in large scripts is mainly a limitation of simple minded programmers. Aside from a few spotty built in commands ahk is solid and reliable. I have several over 10k line scripts that are used by hundreds daily without issue. Yes I think I just fed the troll. @Jethrow Superb pic bro

Lets be clear, I despise AHK. But its what the company I work for chose. I wont say its a bad language or to limited though. And even I must admit it has its strengths.

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You persuaded me. Python - misery. AHK to production.
Cool picture, bro.

I have so many things to say, but knowing its a troll makes a discussion senseless... Here is the text form I have written off from the picture:


This post link: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=465376#465376
Quoted for true and for saving reason. Please refer to this post, every time you see a troll (real trolls only!). Feel free to quote too.

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I can offer to this only one suggestion. For those who believe that AHK is not robust enough, or powerful enough, or even portable enough, to be useful in a production environment. I suggest that you use something like C/C++ to create your own Scripting language with all the bells and whistles that make your anality subside.

Using a Core programming language like C/C++ which has ports to virtually all major OS's will give you the widest possible distribution. Given that you know enough about the various OS internals to run on those OS's, it should be a relatively straightforward task to implement all the basic AHK functionality along with being able to correct all those "mistakes" and "oversights" some find in work they did not themselves produce.

Good luck with that. Personally I prefer to use what works rather than re-invent the wheel using stone tools.

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I've been using AHK and now AHK_L for at total of 3 years, writing scripts pretty much every day, and I've never had to look elsewhere. Since AHK already meets each and every one of my needs, there is no point in me wasting life looking into alternatives when I already have a suitable system in place that, as an added bonus, I am very familiar with.

AHK for ever ! Impossible to replace, but if you want to investigate more...
http://alternativeto.net/software/autohotkey/
(by random, link found today with duckduckgo, google becomes rotten with too much suggest algo and tracking...)
Perhaps "Sikuli", seems noob&graphic friendly with cross platform...

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