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inigyou · 2026-08-30T18:53:07.000Z

The right right question would be: why aren't we enforcing a document to be self-contained? Why are documents agents? Why can any document access anything or indeed, do anything? That's not a document, that's a program!

amluto · 2026-08-30T19:09:43.000Z

Documents containing scripts are genuinely useful, as are, say, Python programs.

inigyou · 2026-08-30T20:08:05.000Z

A python program isn't a word document

amluto · 2026-08-30T20:41:28.000Z

People write real software using Microsoft Office's scripting features. Sure, it's not "cool" the way that Python is cool, but it works.

And neither Microsoft nor Python has a credible security model.