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1998. Lotus Formula Language Runtime engine. Completely rewrote the original written by Ray Ozzie. GA released in 1999 in Lotus Notes/Domino R5.



For a second I thought that was Formula Graphics language or system. It was one of Flash's competitors back in the day. I toyed with it a bit. Nope. Just Lotus scripting language. Never messed with that one.

Formula Graphics seems to have really disappeared as it doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. There's a CNET download that might be it. Not trying it, though.


The sad thing is, that vintage of lotus notes was actually tolerable, compared to what came later.


I feel like I have stockholm syndrome after using Notes from several years. I hated notes, but I really miss the 'Copy to New' function from creating new emails from already sent items.

Anyone know of a client that supports this other than Notes? (sorry for the hijack)


Are you referring to 'Edit As New' in e.g. Thunderbird?


YES!

I don't know why I've never tried Thunderbird until now.. Looks like this was right there under my nose the whole time. Thank you!


I just use "forward" for that in outlook/gmail and delete the first few lines that get injected. Is that what you mean?


Not quite. I have to edit the subject, then add recipients, then edit the body...

Copy to New just gave the identical email, recipients and all, in a new email window. For sending things like monthly reports to a list of people, this was fantastic. 'copy to new, delete attachment, drag+drop new attachment, send'




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