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Very clever... (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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I'm trying out Obsidian for taking notes, and this made me laugh.

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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Not really, or that doesn't feel right to my. Word and notepad basically still do the same thing except for that word lets you add style.

Like a manual vs an automatic car, maybe?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago*

    Word is a WYSIWYG editor. We don't talk about it much these days because it's just how things are done, but it took a long time for the industry to come up with a way to display text on screen with rich formatting and have it come out the same way in print. There was a lot of buzz around it in the late 80s and early 90s.

    Word solves a completely different problem than an IDE. Notepad is a raw, minimal tool that could be built on for either WYSIWYG or an IDE.

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