![]() ![]() However, several times I've seen a whole group of Word power users (not clueless lusers) need to given up on a document and start over from scratch - usually just on little things like the company business plan or 12 month road map (urk). It doesn't crash on me, but it does refuse to do what I tell it sometimes power users get used to doing workarounds, so it's not that big of a deal if you use it every single day - you memorize its idiosyncracies. When I use Windows at work, Word is powerful and pretty nice.if and when it works. Bill Gates has made explicit statements about his beliefs and policies about bugs in his products I'm not flaming, so I won't quote him directly here, but I really do think that the attitude reflected in those famous comments has a direct impact on products like Word. ![]() ![]() I'm sure that vi and emacs had more bugs than I personally have seen, but my experience is not unusual - whereas every heavy user of Word becomes keenly aware of its bugs. I knew of exactly 1 serious bug in the original vi (it crashed if a global search/replace pattern wrapped around to the next line), none in vim (maybe I've been lucky), and only minor bugs in the various versions of emacs I've used (not counting the less-used infinite add-ons). Naw - While it's true that I've sworn at emacs because I didn't know how to get it to do something, and I've sworn at vi for not having a feature I wanted, this is rather different than swearing at Word for not doing what you tell it to do. You could say the same vi, or emacs, for that matter. ![]()
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