[Gimp-user] Batch Image Manipulation, it's time to implement it in GIMP

[abrogard <forums gimpusers com>]

> I have been writing code since the 1970's. I've seen numerous attempts
> to replace code written in a text editor by code generated by clicking
> in graphical interfaces, possibly under the assumption that this could
> be used by non-programmers and therefore get rid of that costly 
> programmers clique. These attempts all fell in two categories, those 
> that utterly failed and those that ended up used only by programmers.
>
> Programming isn't writing code. Programming is finding the point of
> view
> that makes things simple (at least, as simple as possible).
> Programming
> is knowing how to sense problems and code around them. Programming is 
> knowing how to debug your creation, because it rarely works on the
> first
> try.
>
> This is 2019. A couple of months ago, I was helping teenage kids 
> "program" Lego Mindstorm robots in a science fair. It's all graphical,
> you connect little boxes to start motors, react to sensor events,
> etc...
> All kids started a program and when the robot crashed and burned they 
> couldn't imagine what to try to figure out what the problem was. I had
> to tell them. These kids were intelligent, once I gave them a few
> hints
> they could move forward, but they couldn't come up all by themselves 
> with the right way to do it.
>
> Back to Gimp & Bimp. If I give you a GUI where you can do more than
> the
> really trivial stuff which is best done with ImageMagick, you won't be
> able to use it efficiently without acquiring a programmer's mindset.
> And
> once you have done so you discover that you can learn Python in a
> couple
> of hours, and that you are more efficient with it than with a GUI.
>
> As we were saying in the 80s: "Command-line stuff. This is so 1950..."
>
> PS: The tutorial referred to by Kasim dates back to Gimp 2.4... so
> it's
> at least 10 years old...

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