[starik36]

Last time I had a consultation with my lawyer, she fired up WordPerfect. There is a blast from the past.

[cpach]

”Initial release: 1979; 37 years ago”

Quite amazing that it’s still around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPerfect#History

[makmanalp]

George R. R. Martin uses WordStar:

https://news.slashdot.org/story/14/05/14/2019225/game-of-thr...

[fs111]

Many people here use emacs or vim...

[pdimitar]

That's subjective, so you should've kept your subjective opinion away from HN.

[agf]

I still get virus / malware emails from the AOL account of an IP lawyer I worked with in 2011 / 2012. Also a blast from the past every time.

[rhizome]

http://wordperfect.com

My impression is that the legal industry is most of the reason why WP is still being used.

[daveguy]

Word Perfect is the vi of word processors. I still program in vi.

[oblio]

You most likely program in vim or another vi successor. Possibly with a ton of configuration settings and plugins that weren't around in vi. Big difference.

[daveguy]

Fair enough. It is vim -- I still refer to it as vi because I'm that old. And yes, I do take advantage of undo and syntax highlighting. I'm sure quite a few of the modalities I use over the years have been added (oh! Tabs, very important). But the point is, relatively old control interfaces can be very effective even after 30 years.

[mnrode]

O.o Last time I had a consultation with my lawyer, he fired up One Note on his tablet.