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In some sense. I've seen documents written in some version of Microsoft Word that were noticably broken when read into a later version of Microsoft Word.
by jlokier 5y ago
In some sense.
I've seen documents written in some version of Microsoft Word that were noticably broken when read into a later version of Microsoft Word.
- nradov 5y agoIt's a tough problem. The original Microsoft Word file format wasn't even really a file format in the way that modern developers think. It was basically just a dump of raw memory blocks to disk, with the necessary adjustments to pointers between blocks. That made it very fast to save and load files on old hardware. But using such formats with modern code bases is extremely difficult and error prone, even if you have all the original source code.