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Back in 2016 (wow, almost a decade now…) I got a job with a group who used Word docs to email instructions on how to update your code with their changes. For example, “In file xyz.php, go to line 123 and replace <code> with <code>.”
One of my first tasks was getting that group set up with git. But I will never forget that was their best way to version control code… in 2016.
Was their office under a rock somewhere? How had none of them stumbled upon what every other programmer in the world does?
Man that’s wild. There were devs sending these instructions?
To be honest, I sincerely doubt they were devs, maybe support staff… I mean, come on, I’m just an engineer and even I can think of a better way to do that, even if I absolutely must not use any CVS.
I requested a code snippet and instructions for work, I got an email, with a word document attached.
In the word document there was a screenshot of the code I needed.
This only could’ve been better if this was a picture frame a phone of the monitor with the screenshot open in whatever the default screenshot app is for the is.
My first like real programming job, in 2019, version control was “download the project from the share drive, update the code, then add your new code back to the share with todays date in the folder name”.
Everyone, except 1 dude liked SVN or mercurial, wanted the boss to just get us on git. It became the general standard for a reason. None of us liked the version control system we had, but HDD space was cheap so the boss wasn’t that concerned.
I wouldn’t do version control that way, but I’ve used Word to keep track of what I’m working on during integration tasks. It’s nice because you can drop in code, error messages, and screen captures. E.g.: the tool looks like this: (image) but gives an error like this: (error message) and I think the problem is in file.py around lines XYZ: (code snippet) when I run the command (command used), and I think the answer is in (a couple links I found).
I’ve used word/onenote or FOSS equivalents the same way, they’re fine as a scratchpad for notes. As you said it’s nice being able to shove images in there. There are so many things that don’t belong anywhere else that I will forget after even a half hour break.
Here I was thinking it was childhood depression that creates comedians but it was fetal alcohol syndrome all along
why not both
Wine and cigarettes wouldn’t do that to a baby. I’m not exactly sure what would. Conceiving the child with Satan himself, perhaps? Or any billionaire human? To get those levels of evil.
They’re even doing an eager supervillain hand rub in the photo, delighting in the pain they’re about to inflict.
Hope to god no one actually sees that video…
At least it’s the “only” editor that handles tabs correctly. Tabs are to go to the next tabstop, not advance a fixed amount.
I think LibreOffice Writer does that too.
One of the very few?
IDK, I haven’t tried any other to be honest.
In a pinch, if you don’t have Word, try WordPad.
Not if Microsoft have deleted it off your computer.
I expect they compile it like this:
g++ HelloWorld.docx.cpp -o hello.exeThe docx is silent.
