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Comparing Markdown to Microsoft Word?
by Apocryphon 9mo ago
Comparing Markdown to Microsoft Word?
- w10-1 9mo agoOMG I'm so happy you never had to write documentation in the 1990's!
- BeetleB 9mo agoWhat are you talking about? Word is the standard for docs in many large engineering companies.
- esafak 9mo agoThat does not make it good.
- BeetleB 9mo agoOh, it totally sucks. I'm pointing out that the pain didn't end in the 90's, and continues 30 years later :-(
- pluralmonad 9mo agoI used to work with a guy that used docx files for all his note taking. Basically did all text writing (other than code) in Word. We had Notepad++ at the time as well, so he just preferred Word for some reason.
- braincat31415 9mo agoI used *roff back then. Now I have to put it into confluence. What a downgrade.
- VerifiedReports 9mo agoI did, and Word version 2 was an excellent product. WordBasic was incredible. There was even a graphical dialog-builder, so you could invoke dialogs from your macros. I wrote a macro that parsed and re-wrote SQL queries for a Big-6 consulting firm, saving them man-weeks if not months. Word today is a ghastly, incompetent shitshow.