I really envy people who take pride in what they've created. I wish I could build something that becomes standardized like that too. How happy must Tony Krueger have been? Now that everyone uses the feature he built as a standard
Rest in Peace
In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
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Re: In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
#42Amusingly, Chen's article refers to the Wikipedia page as evidence that Tony Krueger did the port. The article's evidence for that in its latest version? A link back to Chen's article...!
Chen doesn't use Wikipedia as evidence that Krueger ported the game. He's pointing out that this is what Wikipedia mentions as most notable, and then adds another thing notable about Krueger, the squigglies. If you read the Chen's whole article, he adds more details about the port at the bottom, so he's clearly aware of it. It's fine to use the article as evidence for the port.
These kinds of circular evidence chains do sometimes happen on Wikipedia, but I don't think this is one of them.
Re: In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
#43> Tony was an early fan of the magic/comedy team Penn and Teller. A friend and colleague attended a show and hung out afterward to ask the duo to sign a photo for his friend Tony. “He was on the team that did the red and green squiggles in Word.” That’s some heavy duty corpo-brain to be introducing your friend with ”He was on the team that did X”.
If you know somebody from work, and that person built something most people on earth have seen and can identify, that seems a fine way of introducing that person.
Re: In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
#44Re: In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
#45Great way to honor Tony and his work
Re: In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
#46Prowrite on the Amiga had a real time spell checker before Word did.
Possibly there were other programs that did as well prior to that.
But Prowrite did it and had a red squiggly line under incorrect words.
https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue123/P215_1_REVIE...
Re: In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s an xkcd for that but I’m on my phone and too lazy to look it up.
Citogenesis! https://xkcd.com/978/ Can't believe we got to see one in the wild, and with clear attribution to boot.
But that didn't happen. See comments above by svat, snickerbockers, and InsideOutSanta.
Re: In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
#48> Tony was an early fan of the magic/comedy team Penn and Teller. A friend and colleague attended a show and hung out afterward to ask the duo to sign a photo for his friend Tony. “He was on the team that did the red and green squiggles in Word.” That’s some heavy duty corpo-brain to be introducing your friend with ”He was on the team that did X”.
"Heavy-duty" calls for exaggerated impact and prestige.
"Tony pioneered the famous red-and-green squiggles of Microsoft Word, empowering millions of users with a spell-checking revolution."
Re: In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I'm thinking about my desktop computer. Also, I find that the autocorrect on my phone is not that good, especially when the first letter is incorrect.
macOS at least will autocorrect stuff by default... I typically turn it off within a few days of a fresh install after getting annoyed by some correction I didn't want.
Yeah that's what I do also. If it got smart enough I guess I'd leave it on, but I have not experienced anything remotely close enough to consider it. Also, it changes stuff without me realizing, and sometimes makes things worse.
Re: In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
#50IIRC Scott McNealy once trolled Microsoft for this - hundred different ways to draw squiggles that can be configured. As an example of code bloat and useless features.