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Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?



On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 05:13 (-0800), Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> >>>>
> But TECO was the greatest, most programmable, powerful editor ever.  If
> only
> it had run on a *NIX OS  :-(
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------
> I remember when working at DEC being told that teco was more than an
> editor, it was a language.  Infact someone had written a StarTrek game
> in teco. (They also wrote a startrek game in Cobol ... YUCK!)

I remember someone standing up at a DECUS meeting and suggestin DEC
write Fortran-77 in teco, since teco was the _ONLY_ "language" portable
across all DEC platforms.
-- 
your man pann


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