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WP is and was wicked fast, and the blank screen, distraction free ui is amazing, the macro language is very powerful also. There were law firms that used it we
by compiler-guy 5y ago
WP is and was wicked fast, and the blank screen, distraction free ui is amazing, the macro language is very powerful also.
There were law firms that used it well into the late 90s due to the amazing macros they had going. Think of the complicated Excel macros one hears about. Same thing, only with law firms and lawyers.
There are still people who run wordstar (which WP supplanted in the eighties).
I wouldn’t use it now, but is was an amazing product in its day.
- encryptluks2 5y agoThere is similar modern software as well.. no need to revert to an unmaintained program just to get something that may be a little faster than a full office suite.
- compiler-guy 5y agoNo one is saying that you should. But very few word processors today are anything close to as fast. Maybe abiword. Certainly not google docs or Microsoft word.
- ipaddr 5y agoHow does open office compare?
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoIf you want maintained, that's libreoffice. And no, LO lags on semi-modern hardware.
- compiler-guy 5y agoI haven’t used it, but unless it’s macro language is about as powerful as excel’s, and unless it has no detectable latency at all, it isn’t as good in that department at least.
- tingletech 5y agoit's still supported on windows
- bawolff 5y agoPretty sure it was used well past late 90s. At least late 2000s
- tingletech 5y agostill widely used in the legal world as far as I know
- rietta 5y ago1st hand knowledge of contemporary usage in court offices. We still support WPD file attachments as well.