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From: dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer)
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Subject: Re: You can do anything in (state your favorite word processor)
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Date: Sat, 23-Aug-86 13:59:25 EDT
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>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.  You can do anything in TECO.  There are games and systems
software (file conversion utilities, an Eliza, even a sleazo
assembler, which must have been written as a joke) written in TECO.

One of my officemates used to talk to TECO as he edited away (he
was otherwise perfectly sane).  TECO does that to you.  It is a
"You Asked For It, You Got It" kind of enviroment.  Gestapo.  Every
key does something (usually the wrong thing).  TECO source code
looks like line noise.

As we well know, TECO is the Real Programmer's favorite editor.
(A Real Programmer knows what happens when he types the letters
of his name into TECO, as commands.)  Second only to TECO is the
debugger, which allows the Real Programmer to enter his text
directly, in octal.  Why fool around?


[I left raw TECO far behind when I discovered EMACS.  Now, EMACS is
this editor that binds every key to *something* (usually the wrong
thing), has thousands of commands to memorize, and likes to eat my
files for lunch.  Who says we've made progress in 20 years?]

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-Landon Dyer, Atari Corp.		{sun,lll-lcc,lll-crg!vecpyr}!atari!dyer

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