[ale] Party like it is 1995

Charles Shapiro hooterpincher at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 11:00:17 EDT 2016


Heh.  My experience with TECO was writing a quine,which I still have. Alas,
the Quine Page ( https://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm ) is unmaintained.

-- CHS


On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:34 AM, maddog at li.org <jonhall80 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> >when he talked about teaching me
> >TECO, I whipped out the garlic,
> >Holy Water, and a silver stake
> >and mallet.
>
> Useless.  Nothing stops a good TECO user.
>
> md
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:17:27 -0400
> Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Maddog is right, open source software never really dies.  Anybody here
> > remember TECO? You can still build and deploy your very own TECO
> > interpreter on your Core I7 with 12 gb of RAM
> > ( http://almy.us/teco.html ). I dunno why anyone would fool with any
> > other editor...
>
> When I was a brand new programmer, our head programmer was one of these
> guys who could code a computer to do absolutely anything. When the
> PDP-11 screwed up and nobody could figure why, he was the guy who
> brought in the oscilloscope. Add 100 to my IQ and you'd get his.
>
> Every once in a while he'd use TECO. And he'd get it right the first
> time. He was my mentor and I learned several cubic miles of information
> and strategy and tactics from him, but when he talked about teaching me
> TECO, I whipped out the garlic, Holy Water, and a silver stake and
> mallet.
>
> SteveT
>
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