Advice on research software

Posted by 22111
Aug 26, 2013 at 04:43 PM

Both people interested in KEdit/“text processing” of data, and interested in the interest of “old” software could be interested in this link:

http://takimag.com/article/spare_a_thought_for_the_late_abandoners_john_derbyshire/print#axzz2d5wRbPLC

Then, there is the Manfred Kühn blog article:

http://takingnotenow.blogspot.be/2013/04/mcphees-workflow.html

Kühn cites McPhee with a rather long passage there, and soon enough, I understood why he did this: The original New Yorker article is paywalled.

But you will perhaps be pleased to know that with a short passage from the above citation, another, presumably illegitimate copy of the article, albeit without some maps and charts, can be found, at least I found it with google, by accident, having searched for “citing its exceptional capabilities in sorting” (with the quotes); KEdit info can then be found in the second half of the McPhee article.

As it stands, KEdit, as is askSam, is some of those “late abandoners” softwares that do much more than similarly-priced current softwares do.

If the original poster has found a way to process his data, I would be delighted to get some info about his new workflow.