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!

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amluto 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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

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inigyou 2 hours ago | parent [-]

A python program isn't a word document

	▲	amluto an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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.