word
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In the beginning was Word
My kid is home from college. I’m watching them do their homework while struggling against the shortcomings of Microsoft Word. It’s the Bourne shell of word processing: powerful, ubiquitous, chock full of time-sucking footguns, and probably the wrong tool for any job that won’t fit on a single screen.
After working with more civilized tools like a good text editor paired with a Markdown processor, I’d been happy to forget that some people still voluntarily use Word.