On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 02:33:13 +0200, John Found wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 13:00:12 +1300
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 16:00:24 +0200, John Found wrote:
>>   
>>> I am writing a GUI library ...  
>> 
>> Does it solve the automation problem
>> <http://ldo17.tumblr.com/post/104365910477/cli-versus-gui-deathmatch>?
>>   
> Of course not. And it should not. The automation is for lamers. If I
> need the computer to make something, I am writing a program that to
> do this something. 
> 
> If the effort to write a program is too big, then the job does not
> worth to be done at all.
> 
> The shell automation is like a programming language, but with very
> random and not consistent syntax. Why to use it, if there are better
> languages?

How much effort would it take you to write the equivalent of this
<https://github.com/ldo/sleep-till/blob/master/sleep-till>, then?


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