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Hahaha, me too, but the old Word format really is as bad as everyone says, and we were trying to build a system with formal correspondence from spec to code (an
by pacaro 9y ago
Hahaha, me too, but the old Word format really is as bad as everyone says, and we were trying to build a system with formal correspondence from spec to code (and sometimes from spec to proof to code), so having a "cobbled" together something really didn't fit the model.
The real problem was using word as our documentation format, but at Microsoft in the early oughts there really weren't many alternatives.
- wglb 9y agoWell, I do believe LaTeX was available. The cobble-together part, to be successful, would pull the text out reliably. And the format is readily documented, and Open/Libre office processes it as well. The code to do the extract might be ugly, but so long as it reliably produced the text in a CI/CD environment, that would be OK.
- pacaro 9y agoThe constraints were entirely organizational, many better technical solutions were suggested