on a related note, the first development software I learned for work was the long obsolete but brilliant Authorware (which launched Macromedia). It had more native functions for parsing text than any software or coding language I've encountered since. Things that now you still have to write your own functions to do and build loops and arrays. We tend to think that things progress forwards in software development, but it's not always the case. Like flash, it was doomed by its plugin and adobe cunts
(, Sat 15 Aug 2020, 1:23, Reply)