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To that point why, does no-one ever suggest that a WYSIWYG text editor (MS Word for example) is for non-writers to use? why is it totally reasonable for other p

To that point why, does no-one ever suggest that a WYSIWYG text editor (MS Word for example) is for non-writers to use? why is it totally reasonable for other professions to have tools that help them see what they're doing but so many geeks seem to cling to the idea that only non-programmers would want a tool that makes it easier to visualize the outcome of their work?

dragonwriter 9y ago
> To that point why, does no-one ever suggest that a WYSIWYG text editor (MS Word for example) is for non-writers to use? That was actually a frequent complaint (along with the, research-backed, complaint that WYSIWYG editors make people, whether pros or not, worse writers) in the 1980s through early 1990s. You still sometimes hear it from pros that hold to archaic word processors, long-hand, or typewriting for manuscripts, or the TeX crowd. It wasn't effective at stopping WYSIWYG from taking over virtually everything, but it wasn't an uncommon complaint.