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====== Perfection ====== Perfection was an attempt to re-invent the QL's approach to Word Processing - with the friendliness of and similar user interface to [[qlwiki:Quill]] but with a host more features, and in particular a huge speed improvement. The program was written to [[qlwiki:Freddy Vaccha]]'s design and overall specification, with the detailed specification devised between Freddy and the main programmer on the project, [[qlwiki:Steve Sutton]]. Freddy says "Implementation (i.e. writing) of the main body of code was all by [[qlwiki:Steve Sutton]]; conversely, all the spell-checking / dictionary maintenance stuff was written by me. I'd considered using [[qlwiki:Peter Jefferies]] for this, but - note this was a very much younger and less experienced Peter then - when we tried it out, he was too disorganised for a software ultra-planner like me." The program was certainly very quick at navigation and when searching / replacing words or phrases in the program. Indeed, Freddy comments "I think there's a fair probability that the idea behind PERFECTION's memory management (think inserting material at high speed into the middle of a huge document) was "borrowed" by certain large U.S. software corporations whose names you would know. As the expanded QL's hardware ran at less than 1/10,000th of the raw speed of what we can easily buy now, that it could handle (say) the KJV Bible without noticeable delays was some achievement. Of all my/our/DP's work, it is the one of which I am proudest." ---- Title: **Perfection**\\ Language: 68000 Machine Code\\ Author: [[qlwiki:Steve Sutton]] and [[qlwiki:Freddy Vaccha]]\\ Publisher: [[qlwiki:Digital Precision Ltd]]\\ Year of Publication: Unknown\\ Platforms Suitable for: All Sinclair QLs and emulators with minimum 512K \\ Commercial Status: Commercial\\ Price in July 1987: Unknown\\ Reviewed: Unknown\\ Sources Available from: Unknown\\ Latest Version available from: Unknown\\