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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 20:49:38 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 09:43:21 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> If I were a more talented or prolific writer and had enough good ideas
> to write a number of novels, the only things I would need from a word
> processor are a thesaurus and a spelling checker.

As a software developer (and sometime documentation writer), I wonder how 
non-programmers can manage without version control. How do they keep track 
of changes? How do multiple contributors collaborate on a single document?