| rindolf | perlygatekeeper: next time RTFM, STFW, and ATFM. ATFM == Ask/Answer the fine man. JATFM. |
| rgsteele | yrlnry: Ah, silly me. Thank you. |
| yrlnry | Sure. |
| perlygatekeeper | like I was working on this really cool idea I had that would record sizes, checksums, permssions, and such on key directories and files and note differences for intrusion detection in perl |
| yrlnry | I wrote the world's worst macro processor last year. |
| jagerman | rindolf: My point here is that Word, for most purposes, is very easy to use. |
| rindolf | jagerman: I hate word. |
| perlygatekeeper | after about a month of messing with it, it was almost done, then someone said, hey you should check out 'tripwire' |
| jagerman | rindolf: oowriter takes some of the ideas, screws them up, and leaves out some important ones. |
| perlygatekeeper | ARRRRG! |
| rindolf | jagerman: WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS was much better. |
| jagerman | I still can't figure out how to select a piece of text and add a comment to it. |
| rindolf | jagerman: too bad it was written in Assembly. jagerman: but I hate the concept of a word processor. A word processor does not scale well. |
| integral | Assembly with a really good macro processor is quite fun |
| rindolf | integral: yeah. |
| perlygatekeeper | and he continued talking, slowing down enough to realize that noone was actually listening to his rant anymore, he becomes silent and goes to the #perl corner to pout by himself |
| rindolf | integral: that or VAX assembly. |
| perlygatekeeper | *SIGH* |
| integral | I wonder how practical VAX is as a virtual machine. Could simh outperform parrot? :-P |
| jagerman | rindolf: err, scale? How is that significant? |
| rindolf | jagerman: I cannot write long documents in it properly. |
| yrlnry | perlygatekeeper: I was listening, but you telegraphed the punchline. |
| rindolf | jagerman: not without studying it. |
| jagerman | rindolf: I agree, when it comes to openoffice, but not in Word. Sure, there are various problems with Word |
| integral | perlygatekeeper: There's another one now, called AIDE |
| perlygatekeeper | I mean I came up with that idea without any prior knowledge that it was already done and on VERSION FUCKING 3 already |
| jagerman | files get too big, things get complex--but from the user's point of view, those aren't a big deal as much as the front-end functionality. |
| integral | yeah, that happens a lot |
| rindolf | jagerman: in word too! jagerman: and OOo is better than word. |
| perlygatekeeper | that's why I like coming here |
| rindolf | Word can only scale up to 64 MB docs, while OOo much more |
| jagerman | rindolf: For me, writing an essay, I care mostly about content. Editing paragraphs, moving things around, adding notes, footnotes, endnotes, etc. |