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Seems like a lot to add to such a simple program. I bet they didn't do that. Years ago I re-released an old and honored tool. A strange path. It was the simpl
by JoeAltmaier 3y ago
Seems like a lot to add to such a simple program. I bet they didn't do that.
Years ago I re-released an old and honored tool. A strange path.
It was the simple code editor used on an early office computer. The programmers all used it daily.
First, the source was gone. The team that made it, the last remaining member that remembered it, said "It was just a checkpointed version of our general document editor. We've continued development and have a hundred more features now."
Moving to the document editor wouldn't do. Can't have programmers confused by formatting and mail-merge features on a C source file.
So I took the current Document Designer source, ripped out everything formatting-related, kept some useful multi-document features. Added some special programmer-specific features (paste-to-anchor point etc for fast prototyping). Got something not too much larger than the old Editor, and much much smaller than the latest document tool.
And...hardly anybody used it. Even a little change from ol faithful was too much for most of the teams. No surprise; their job was writing code, not relearning tools to write code.
Anyway I had my own personal useful tool after that. Even if I was the only one that knew how to use it.