[qingcharles]

The first class of my CS degree was "How to use Microsoft Word" and some of the other students had a really, really hard time figuring this out. Including the guy next to me who kept telling me he had a job lined up already to write software for nuclear reactors in Pascal.

[jtsuken]

There was a post on HN some time ago about a candidate for a senior IT role, who wrote code in MS Word.

I can't find it right now. Maybe I should try Bing search

[pmontra]

Great fun with the autocorrected Unicode double quotes.

A customer of mine got bitten on a preproduction server because of a copy and paste from some blog, where ASCII " were converted to Unicode (slanted) "

[defrost]

This aligns with reality.

To be fair to the other guy, early versions of MS Word sucked when it came to LaTeX representations of integrals and nuclear decay chain notations.

Perhaps more recent versions do better.

[nilamo]

Why would using a fancy editor be in any way relevant to writing code? That CS class should be dropped from the curriculum, imo, until such time as bolding a register has some sort of meaning, or perhaps viewing an sql table via "print preview".