I need a good writing program and I need it REALLY REALLY fast. Wordpad isnt cutting it I have a paper due tomorrow so please help me out!!

Notepad.

OpenOffice

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Abiword.

It's good, it's free, it's fun. OpenOffice is good and all, but it's the lags. Java doesn't work well on windows.

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Java doesn't work well anywhere

Abiword is fine, a lot better than wordpad. OpenOffice is great, just slow. Definitely go with abiword, it's a much smaller download as well

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I've used OpenOffice for a while now, and I like it a lot. However, sometimes I feel that it takes an unnecessarily long time to load up compared to Word.

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I've never had problems with openoffice, in either linux or windows. It takes a few seconds longer than word to open, and some would call that lag, but seriously, what were you planning on doing with those few extra seconds?




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I too recommend OpenOrifice.

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Why don't you like Java Brian?

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Pissed off?

It's slow, under the Sun platform it's buggy, and it's just downright well...crappy anymore. It's gone downhill ever since Sun took over.

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You can get StarOffice (a better version of OO) for free if you're a student. You can get it from Sun's website.

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A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition."

I've never used a GUI java program that performed decently enough to be usable. Everything from menu speeds to text entry speeds is simply abysmal. Even with a very simple text editor *I* wrote in Java, I can type faster than the letters appear on the screen. In both windows and linux. I guess java is okay for applets like the chat crapplet, but for some reason, full-fledged gui programs tend to bite.

As for programming in java, I hate it because of the entirely too long, unclear, and annoying object heirarchy. For example:



There are so many things wrong with this code it's not even funny. First, you have to declare variable types too many times. For example, String myString = new String; Duh.

Second, they are using object methods to test equality, instead of simple operators like "==" or "eq":

if (message.equalsIgnoreCase("time")) {

Third, the object heirarchy is a nightmare:

String time = new java.util.Date().toString();

So, it takes that much to get a TIMESTAMP. I have to browse through the base java class, to the util class, where I finally find a date method, which of course returns a date object, so I have to then convert the date object to a string. That's four levels of objects/methods just to get a stinking timestamp. And that's one of the LEAST extreme examples I could find.

The language just isn't friendly to programmers. Maybe it's more "proper" and maybe it's more "structured," but it sure is a pain in the *** to code in.

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$message =~ s/heirarchy/hierarchy/gi;

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I agree with the last two posts. Java has some nice things, but so much is ridiculously stupid...

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