> Would it be so terrible if we could one day say "make a window called 'my window', and put a button in the lower left, and when I click on it play a trumpet s

> Would it be so terrible if we could one day say "make a window called 'my window', and put a button in the lower left, and when I click on it play a trumpet sound" (with default behaviors for size and padding and fonts and stupid shit like that that normal people don't actually care about) instead of having to copypaste a thousand lines of greek from some website? Applescript reads kind of like this. It's interesting to read but a terrible pain to learn, and as you get deeper into it, it still retains the subtle gotchas native to every programming language I've touched. There are always weird implications that you don't see until they bite you or someone points them out to you. Which, I think, touches on the case Dijkstra is making here.