Why word is a terrible program

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I was writing a blog entry about proselytizing, which I dislike and may not post, but one point that came up is that the only thing that I actively proselytize, the only thing that I really want other people to do differently, is to use a semantically-oriented document preparation system.

Yes, I realize this makes me a geek, and that maybe world peace should be higher on the list. But I've spent so much time watching people do horribly inefficient things for hours on end, and it pains me. It does.

So, I've written an article about it. Here it is: Why Word is a terible program, and the PDF version. It's the aggregation of a number of past entries, and is in no way about the politics of software. And why was it so easy to splice together such a volume of text? Because I didn't use Word to do it.

Oh, how cathartic. Now I can get back to writing grant proposals with a clearer conscience that I've done something to help the world.

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