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Last time I had a consultation with my lawyer, she fired up WordPerfect. There is a blast from the past.
by starik36 10y ago
Last time I had a consultation with my lawyer, she fired up WordPerfect. There is a blast from the past.
- agf 10y agoI still get virus / malware emails from the AOL account of an IP lawyer I worked with in 2011 / 2012. Also a blast from the past every time.
- rhizome 10y agohttp://wordperfect.com http://wordperfect.com My impression is that the legal industry is most of the reason why WP is still being used.
- daveguy 10y agoWord Perfect is the vi of word processors. I still program in vi.
- oblio 10y agoYou most likely program in vim or another vi successor. Possibly with a ton of configuration settings and plugins that weren't around in vi. Big difference.
- daveguy 10y agoFair enough. It is vim -- I still refer to it as vi because I'm that old. And yes, I do take advantage of undo and syntax highlighting. I'm sure quite a few of the modalities I use over the years have been added (oh! Tabs, very important). But the point is, relatively old control interfaces can be very effective even after 30 years.
- mnrode 10y agoO.o Last time I had a consultation with my lawyer, he fired up One Note on his tablet.
- cpach 10y ago”Initial release: 1979; 37 years ago” Quite amazing that it’s still around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPerfect#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPerfect#History
- makmanalp 10y agoGeorge R. R. Martin uses WordStar: https://news.slashdot.org/story/14/05/14/2019225/game-of-thrones-author-george-r-r-martin-writes-with-wordstar-on-dos https://news.slashdot.org/story/14/05/14/2019225/game-of-thr...
- fs111 10y agoMany people here use emacs or vim...
- pdimitar 10y agoThat's subjective, so you should've kept your subjective opinion away from HN.