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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Remembering WordPerfect
Over the past week, the link to W.E. Pete Anderson's "Almost Perfect" made the rounds on the social networking site, Twitter. A few interesting discussions about the software cropped up thereafter.
From MetaFilter:
About five years ago WP felt like a recently-dead relative - little mementoes of its existence (old files, templates, etc) kept cropping up on my company's servers, even though we had long since shifted to Windows + Office. Now, WP might as well have been invented in the Georgian Era - nothing left even to remind people that Word once had competition.
And:
I'm an attorney a small county in Pennsylvania. I'd say half of the law firms in the county still use wordperfect. I still get calls from law firm secretaries telling me they cannot open the document I sent them in Word format, and asking if I can send it in wordperfect. Its crazy.
Lots more on MetaFilter.
From Jeff Atwood, who after reading the book had this to say:
For a period from about 1985 to 1992, WordPerfect was the most popular word processing program in the world on virtually every computing platform. I remember it well; the very concept of word processing was synonymous with WordPerfect.
And now I can't even recall the last time I encountered a WordPerfect document, much less anyone who still uses WordPerfect. The software is still limping along, barely, under the auspices of Corel corporation, as WordPerfect Office X4. I guess it's a testament to how quickly things change in the world of software; you can dominate the world for years, only to be relegated to little more than a dimly remembered footnote in computing history a decade later.
He seems to have a true appreciation for programming, as the name of his blog is Coding Horror: programming and human factors:
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