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w10-1last Friday at 10:03 PM3 repliesview on HN

OMG I'm so happy you never had to write documentation in the 1990's!


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VerifiedReportsyesterday at 1:54 AM

I did, and Word version 2 was an excellent product. WordBasic was incredible. There was even a graphical dialog-builder, so you could invoke dialogs from your macros. I wrote a macro that parsed and re-wrote SQL queries for a Big-6 consulting firm, saving them man-weeks if not months.

Word today is a ghastly, incompetent shitshow.

braincat31415last Friday at 10:25 PM

I used *roff back then. Now I have to put it into confluence. What a downgrade.

BeetleBlast Friday at 10:18 PM

What are you talking about? Word is the standard for docs in many large engineering companies.

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