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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Probably because it's the scripting language equivalent to Clippy. Ref.: Approved "verbs"

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Boy oh boy would you hate AppleScript. This is what I have to type to throw files in the trash instead of deleting them.

    tell application ”Finder” to delete POSIX file “/full/fucking/path/to/file”
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Why do you need to "tell" some "application"? Why do you need a "finder" if you know the absolute path already? Does this imply that "finder" always runs, ready to be told something?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Finder is macOS equivalent of Windows Explorer (maybe, it’s been a while). I assume Linux desktop suites have various similar processes. In other words, a second optional layer (with more features) to access runtime libc file manipulation api.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Explorers in Linux don't work like this. They are just some app you can move your files with.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    Yes. Finder is just some app you can move files with on macOS.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    I really appreciate the consistency. People also dog it for being verbose to write but it makes it so much more legible.

    /shrug

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

    I usually write verbose code and use self-documenting function names, but to have such a limited set of verbs available can be frustrating. They could at least have used a proper dictionary and included all verbs. Then have a map of synonyms that are preferred, like instead of 'create' they prefer 'new' (which isn't even a verb).

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    You don't have to follow best practices though. You can name shit pretty much whatever you want.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    No, but if you don't the UI will nag at you just like Clippy did, which is my point.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    Only if you haven't disabled or dismissed the "problem"