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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
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Subject: Re: Re: You can do anything in (state your favorite word processor)
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Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 13:58:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 18 13:58:21 1986
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> In article <158@tcdmath.UUCP> jaymin@tcdmath.UUCP (Joe Jaquinta) writes:
>>
>>We've seen sorting in nroff, prime number generation in TeX, does
>>anybody know if anyone has written an operating system in a word
>>processing language yet?
> 
> TECO?
> 
> Actually, you can write EMACS as TECO macros, and LISP in EMACS; you
> could then write your OS in LISP.  It'd be slow as a dog, but you could
> probably do a TECO-machine in firmware?
> -- 
> # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G-202, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs

And TECO is really just a text edition, language, or at least it started out
that way.  As I recall, it originally allowed 26 * 3 variables (A-Z 3 times, 
accessed with a different syntax for each group).  Then an additional 512
variables were added, corresponding to the MIT 512 character keyboard used
for MIT EMACS.  Later, a syntax was added for arbitrarily named variables.
Variables cound contain numbers, strings, or text buffers.  The evolution
from text editor language to kludgy (and closer to "write-only" than even
APL) programming language also followed the built-in operations.

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	"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and
	 for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."
							-Gotama Buddha

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