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Re: (Slightly Off-Topic) Emacs-like Office App
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Joshua Goldberg |
Subject: |
Re: (Slightly Off-Topic) Emacs-like Office App |
Date: |
01 Nov 2002 13:14:37 -0500 |
Kevin Dziulko <dziulko@klaatu.canisius.edu> writes:
> Target both software developers and casual office users? Good luck with
> that.
Mac OSX seems like a good example of this. A hood under which you can
get to tweak powerfully (in ways developers are accustomed to and that
work well) on a system that is well-enough designed that even the
developers I know find they don't bother tweaking it nearly as much as
they did with unix.
> One big super app that does everything? I think MS Word attempts
> that (has word processing, drawing, desktop publishing, embedded
> spreadsheets, modes(document templates), extendable with programming
> ...). The result: enormous, slow, unstable, and all the other
> reasons why people hate microsoft apps. If you want an app that
> performs well, modularity is the key. Many small programs with a
> narrower scope would be easier to create, upkeep, and execute with
> high performace.
Good points. I do think a good word-processor can exist, though, that
both programmers and grandpa would be happy with.
-Josh
(I tweak emacs a lot and love to, but I can certainly imagine having
software that doesn't make me feel like I need to. I should also
admit that I've never owned or made very heavy use of a Mac--usually
I'm on unix at work. If I bought a computer though it'd probably be
Mac.)
- Re: (Slightly Off-Topic) Emacs-like Office App, Alex Schroeder, 2002/11/01
- Re: (Slightly Off-Topic) Emacs-like Office App, Kevin Dziulko, 2002/11/01
- Re: (Slightly Off-Topic) Emacs-like Office App, Richard V. Molen, 2002/11/01
- Re: (Slightly Off-Topic) Emacs-like Office App,
Joshua Goldberg <=
- Re: (Slightly Off-Topic) Emacs-like Office App, Todd Wylie, 2002/11/01
- Re: (Slightly Off-Topic) Emacs-like Office App, Carlos Betancourt, 2002/11/03
- Re: (Slightly Off-Topic) Emacs-like Office App, Chris L, 2002/11/03