My feeling is that most everyone of a certain age and orientation (likely millions) used Treepad.
Mark S. wrote: > > > "one of the most imitated programs on the Web since 1995" > > So, it had a long run, I suppose. It does illustrate the dangers of > single-owner proprietary software. > Not sure. "Evolution" in software in untypically rapid. The fundamental "metaphor" in TreePad was widely cribbed and expanded upon. So loss is maybe not so huge? However, I use a lot of software by Jan Goyvaerts <https://www.just-great-software.com/m/aboutjg.html> that all use regular expressions extremely well ... RegexBuddy, PowerGrep, EditPadPro. If Jan snuffs it before me I could be in a pickle. The stuff is not cribbed and I can't see any software (other than, maybe, TextPipe) that handles regular expressions anywhere near as well. BTW, communal projects die too. TBH, I think the issue is good one, but the answer is not that easy. There is a kind of "vast loss" going on on net constantly IMO. It really is not cumulative. Best wishes TT Birthe C wrote: > >> >> I found a review of Treepad from 1999. >> <http://informationr.net/ir/reviews/sofrev1to4/sofrev04.html> That was >> around the time I started using it, but it is even older. Do you know when >> the first version were released? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/dcc01cc6-b812-4af8-a424-df48da112cf8o%40googlegroups.com.
