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Given that Sprint was discontinued by Borland nearly 20 years ago, it's very difficult to include any Web links to sources. That's a common problem with older articles which either lack Web sources in the first place or which lose them over time, either because the original sources disappear or because they get edited out in various revisions of the articles.
No doubt there has been some general discussion of the disappearing-sources problem. It would be nice to have some Web archives which could preserve some of the older links or which could allow for taking "snapshots" of the sources. This would enhance the historical value of Wikipedia, which is already considerable. Maybe there already are some initiatives along these lines.
Which reminds me - I need to contribute some $ to the Wikimedia Foundation for worthwhile initiatives such as saving the sources and retaining the older articles, as well as the many other good things that Wikipedia does.
On this particular article, I can certainly vouch for the "Features" list, because I'm one of the few who still uses Sprint regularly, after all these years. It's easy to program Sprint to do all sorts of useful, time-saving things - and that gives it perennial value.
JD Fan ( talk) 21:45, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
May add a bit more on Sprint, down the road. I still use Sprint for all my drafts because of its blazing speed and the ability to get under the hood and modify it to do just about anything you want it to do, especially in handling and navigating large documents. This enables you to jump around your whole set of documents in random-access, non-linear fashion, rather than having to scroll through them. Everything is instantaneous. As for compatibility with the rest of the world, Word Perfect 12 can read Sprint files (with all the formatting, including footnotes) and then convert them easily to Word Perfect or Microsoft Word files using the "Save As" feature.
Sprint is still useful because it is fast and programmable: using a language which is much like "C", you can program new capabilities and include them in the interface, which can readily be customized (e.g., with menus).
--JD_Fan, June 21/06
The Emacs article says that Sprint's predecessor, "Final Word", was based on MINCE - an Emacs clone. This article has no mention of it. Does anyone know this history? (FWIW, "MINCE" stood for "MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs") Gronky 12:16, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
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Given that Sprint was discontinued by Borland nearly 20 years ago, it's very difficult to include any Web links to sources. That's a common problem with older articles which either lack Web sources in the first place or which lose them over time, either because the original sources disappear or because they get edited out in various revisions of the articles.
No doubt there has been some general discussion of the disappearing-sources problem. It would be nice to have some Web archives which could preserve some of the older links or which could allow for taking "snapshots" of the sources. This would enhance the historical value of Wikipedia, which is already considerable. Maybe there already are some initiatives along these lines.
Which reminds me - I need to contribute some $ to the Wikimedia Foundation for worthwhile initiatives such as saving the sources and retaining the older articles, as well as the many other good things that Wikipedia does.
On this particular article, I can certainly vouch for the "Features" list, because I'm one of the few who still uses Sprint regularly, after all these years. It's easy to program Sprint to do all sorts of useful, time-saving things - and that gives it perennial value.
JD Fan ( talk) 21:45, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
May add a bit more on Sprint, down the road. I still use Sprint for all my drafts because of its blazing speed and the ability to get under the hood and modify it to do just about anything you want it to do, especially in handling and navigating large documents. This enables you to jump around your whole set of documents in random-access, non-linear fashion, rather than having to scroll through them. Everything is instantaneous. As for compatibility with the rest of the world, Word Perfect 12 can read Sprint files (with all the formatting, including footnotes) and then convert them easily to Word Perfect or Microsoft Word files using the "Save As" feature.
Sprint is still useful because it is fast and programmable: using a language which is much like "C", you can program new capabilities and include them in the interface, which can readily be customized (e.g., with menus).
--JD_Fan, June 21/06
The Emacs article says that Sprint's predecessor, "Final Word", was based on MINCE - an Emacs clone. This article has no mention of it. Does anyone know this history? (FWIW, "MINCE" stood for "MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs") Gronky 12:16, 1 March 2007 (UTC)