Talk:Visual DialogScript

Cleanup

I have been using VDS for over 15 years (since version 2.0) and continue to use it to this day. I am the IT Administrator for an insurance company and the lead developer of InsureSign digital document signing software [1]. I am also the developer of Paste As File a popular utility for Windows [2]. VDS is a great language and can be used to make great applications. I will continue to use it as long as it can run on Windows. - Chris Gingerich — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.25.204.229 (talk) 21:45, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Most of this looks like it's blurb that may as well've been copied off the manufacturer's websitr, Especially lines like "VDS uses easy to remember commands and functions, which refer to English words", followed by something which looks like glorified assembly language. There might be enough non-spam that could be salvaged to leave something stub-esque, but I doubt this is notable enough to be worth the effort (in terms of noatability, you get <38k results googling for it [3], and that drops significantly when you strip out the odd derogatory term [4]). The grammar & formatting leave a bit to be desired, too. I'd sort that out myself, but I suspect this is destined for VfD. Irrel 19:11, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't think one should post such harsh words until you have actually used the product. As for this wiki it is limited but no more than any other language in the Wikipedia. Also in all my years of using this product I have never once heard anyone refer to it as "glorified assembly language". However there is more to this language than meets the eye and far more to it than this wiki tells. I encourage you and anyone out there that needs a simple stable scripting language to at least give it a try. It may just surprise you. Please don't go around bashing other peoples work. jkinsey Nov. 22 2006 11:54PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time

I also think the article sounds a bit too enthusiastic; concerning the language I didn't use it myself but I read the description on the website (there are also some examples of the syntax) and just dismissed it thinking "why on earth would somebody pay for this when there's autoit3 for free?". Since there are surely dozens of rather similar languages, both in purpose and basic-like syntax, and none would deserve a full article without resembling an advert or duplicating the user manual, i think it would be better to have them all in one article, say "basic-like scripting languages for windows", maybe comparing their features, and redirect the the individual names. I only know and have used a few of them: autohotkey, autoit3, and kixtart; considering they're all free and fill very well their niche I didn't look any further; I still use autoit3 if I need to throw something together fast that doesn't do anything too clever but needs to interact with the gui (alas, ms windows has a console and pipes too but nobody uses them, so one has to go screen-scraping and sendkey-ing around to get something done. I wish ms made powershell some 10 years ago, maybe it would have catched on). 82.50.80.26 (talk) 04:13, September 20, 2007 (UTC)