From: John Cuccia 

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:43:25 -0600, "Joe Barr"
 wrote:

>Maybe Perens was wrong, maybe it is the mindset rather than the
>capabilities.

Did you post a link to the Perens article?  If so, could you repost it?

Anyway, some things are not readily scriptable in Windows.  One thing that
comes immediately to mind is the Scheduled Task subsystem in Windows 2000. 
While it is programmable, its interfaces aren't available to the Windows
Script Host.  Since they are accessible via VB and VC++, my company had a
developer create a DLL that wraps the API calls and exposes them to
scripting tools.

I can't say much more than I have about Windows "scriptability"
(because I don't know much more ) except that the OS provides a
rich and incredibly complex  object model and allows access to most of it
by scripting tools.

Note that Rexx, Python, and Perl are not part of the Windows 2000 package. 
They're all 3rd products tools that need to be installed by the interested
user.

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