Libre/OpenOffice's main value to me is fixing borked Word and Excel documents.

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2017-04-03T15:45:58Z

@kdfrawg Heard of it but never had the opportunity.

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2017-04-03T15:39:49Z

@kdfrawg …AmiPro, under Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, was really good. Shame it never took off.

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2017-04-03T15:38:54Z

@kdfrawg I always thought One Write Plus belonged in the weird shit pile.

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2017-04-03T15:37:46Z

@kdfrawg It was a perfectly serviceable word processor under DOS. Until I switched to WordPerfect, that its.

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2017-04-03T15:35:56Z

@kdfrawg Mine skipped town.

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2017-04-03T15:33:12Z

What is a sensible default value for a type?

I've always been of the opinion that it should be NULL. (As in indeterminate. NOT ZERO) but no-one does it that way.

2017-04-03T15:27:37Z

@kdfrawg I had a bad first impression with Pascal. (UCSD Pascal)

The IDE was fine (if you were used to WordStar). I've feeling if I tried to use it today, I'd hurl my laptop against a wall. :)

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2017-04-03T15:25:10Z

The bit about generics is definitely a strike against it. I'll say that.

2017-04-03T15:22:11Z

@kdfrawg If Borland had stuck with straight Pascal and added large, huge and flat memory models..instead of going into the Delphi rabbit hole, i'd have been a happy camper.

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2017-04-03T15:17:26Z