“Word is Worse than the Atomic Bomb” – Technical Writing Nightmare (Quote)

Found this quote:

“The main conclusion of this is that I’m now convinced that Word is an abomination. I think it is one of the worse human creations after the atomic bomb. Everyone knows that writing in Word and sending over chapter3.rev57.new.new-old.rev-final.doc files by e-mail is a nightmare, but no one really knows until they have to do it for real with a 500-pages book full of code listings, images, mathematical equations, and URLs.”

That was Cyrille Rossant, who is describing his experience writing The iPython Cookbook. Why a book publisher, publishing a technical book, would choose Microsoft Word as their format of choice is a question I may not want to know the answer to…

Now go lift something heavy,
Nick Horton

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