Re: Monkey (Re: Word 4.0 fractional widths still farcical (Grumble))

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From: Steve Baumgarten
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1989 16:31

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In article <883@castle.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
>>I don't know what Microsoft is using, but I have an ancient DA called
>>Monkey that does this, so it wouldn't surprise me any if Microsoft has
>>the same thing.
>
>Probably their *only* testing procedure, given the quality of those
>MicroSoft applications I've had to use....
>
>In the case of Word, I bet they let it write the code as well....

Now be fair -- they don't let the monkey write the code, just design
the user interface....

[ There, I feel much better now.  :-) ]

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