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In article <1992Jul30.060915.4165@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes:
>Well, I do own a copy of WordPerfect, and it's a nice proof of concept.
>
>As a product, it stinks.  I swear, the program's artificial intelligence.  It  
>ARGUES with you!  "Nah, you don't really want that graphic to be 3.5"x2.5".   
>Here, I'll make it a nice 3.273"x2.034" for you."  "Here, let me move this  
>figure two pages down."  Or, my favorite:  "You must be tired.  Let me make  
>all of the pages blank."
>
>Of every hour I use WP, about 40 minutes are used to undo its spontaneous  
>changes.  I do "save" every five minutes, and "revert to saved" three minutes  
>after each "save."
>
>If 6.0 is another prototype thrown at us, I'm not paying a red cent for the  
>upgrade.  As far as I'm concerned, they still owe us a working version.  And  
>an apology.
>
>Jacob

And you really gotta like how the text bounces up and down as you type.
I know I'm being especially productive when it can't even keep up with
my keystrokes.  This program is a real dog.  Worse yet, it's a mutated
dog -- nuclear testing going on down in Utah or something?  I think
their Text object has some serious chromosome damage.

I really don't like bashing a program, because I know someone somewhere
has had to put a lot of work into it.  But it seems that everytime I sit
down with WP, I end up cursing at it.  

Whenever I see NeXT advertising how wonderful the apps are, there's
usually a WP icon floating amongst AI, Improv, Frame, etc.  Quick,
get me a bucket.

Stuart
(it must be the heat)