OMG I'm so happy you never had to write documentation in the 1990's!

VerifiedReports a day ago | parent | next [-]

I 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.

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braincat31415 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I used *roff back then. Now I have to put it into confluence. What a downgrade.

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BeetleB a day ago | parent | prev [-]

What are you talking about? Word is the standard for docs in many large engineering companies.

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esafak a day ago | parent [-]

That does not make it good.

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BeetleB a day ago | parent [-]

Oh, it totally sucks. I'm pointing out that the pain didn't end in the 90's, and continues 30 years later :-(

	▲	pluralmonad a day ago \| parent [-]
		I 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.