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I brought this up once and I was told that since the company has decided on Word as it's document editor, the 'execptions' were considered 'normal operation' of the appliction.ĭisclaimer, I'm not a code genious, but, when the last process call SEEMS TO BE the only one recorded.Īlso, I don't think I'm breaking any code release agreements since I have not pasted any code, nor made any specific or exact comments to what the code does. In other words, the info SEEMS meaningless 90% of the time, yet it SEEMS to be stored anyway. This SEEMS *NOT* what actually crashed Word, just what the last thing it was able to do. It's more only what was the last thing ask for before it dumpped, is what it seems. It's not a 'memory dump', I'd call it what looks like a ptrace. Granted I don't have 'clearence' to ALL of the code, what I have seen of Word, your statement SEEMS only kinda true. I work for a company that has signed the 'Embrace and Extend' code visibility agreement. So yeah, Word - nice when it works, I guess, but it can be quite frustrating other times. To be charitable, this may be the eventual fate of any huge app that grows by accretion from a small program to a hugely enormous giganto app, without being redesigned and recoded and refactored along the way. I know it's not just me being confused, I see this happen to everyone who uses Word heavily on big documents, sooner or later. The only workaround each time was to copy/paste the original document text into a new Word file, because Word was hopelessly confused by whatever little magic cookies it had left in the original document. However, several times I've seen a whole group of Word power users (not clueless lusers) need to given up on a document and start over from scratch - usually just on little things like the company business plan or 12 month road map (urk).

It doesn't crash on me, but it does refuse to do what I tell it sometimes power users get used to doing workarounds, so it's not that big of a deal if you use it every single day - you memorize its idiosyncracies.

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When I use Windows at work, Word is powerful and pretty nice.if and when it works. Bill Gates has made explicit statements about his beliefs and policies about bugs in his products I'm not flaming, so I won't quote him directly here, but I really do think that the attitude reflected in those famous comments has a direct impact on products like Word. I'm sure that vi and emacs had more bugs than I personally have seen, but my experience is not unusual - whereas every heavy user of Word becomes keenly aware of its bugs. I knew of exactly 1 serious bug in the original vi (it crashed if a global search/replace pattern wrapped around to the next line), none in vim (maybe I've been lucky), and only minor bugs in the various versions of emacs I've used (not counting the less-used infinite add-ons).

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Naw - While it's true that I've sworn at emacs because I didn't know how to get it to do something, and I've sworn at vi for not having a feature I wanted, this is rather different than swearing at Word for not doing what you tell it to do. You could say the same vi, or emacs, for that matter.