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From: evp@lewey.UUCP (Ed Post)
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Subject: Re: Re: You can do anything in (state your favorite word processor)
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Date: Mon, 25-Aug-86 22:00:31 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?
>

Somewhere, I probably have a copy of the Turing machine simulator I wrote
in TECO.  My first attempt at a Turing machine simulator took about 1000
lines of Algol; the TECO version (years later) took about a twenty line
TECO macro.  This might suggest that TECO is a much more powerful language
than Algol; alternatively, it might suggest that TECO more closely resembles
a Turing machine simulator than a programming language.

"A TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise
than readable text." (Craig Finseth, B.S. Thesis, MIT/LCS/TM-165, 1980)

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