Article 807 of alt.lang.teco: [N.B.: Cross posted to alt.lang.teco] jmfbah@aol.com (JMFBAH) writes: > Ralph M Jones wrote: >More like the world's first useful character processor. When I made the >above suggestion to add TECO to the list of programming languages, it was >done sorta tongue-in-cheek. However, there once was a great programmer >known as TW, who was famous for his TECO macros. Tony couldn't hold a candle to many others for TECO coding skills. (Hey, is he the one that wrote the TECO program that converted TOPS-10 register names from the 4S72 monitor to the 5.xx series? I was _so_ relieved to find that macro, as I was at CMU and was beginning to panic about the source merge.) Various things done in TECO: Turing machine (to prove TECO to be a general purpose lanuguage) Screen editors (me, DEC folks, the original emacs) Intel 8080 to Z80 assembler mnemonic translator (authors of the CP/M TECO variant called TED) Music language to file for dot matrix printer to play music (me - the first song the printer played was "A Bicycle Built for Two", of course. I also used TECO to generate the font of 0.5" wide characters with pinfire placement computed to 0.0001", but converted to 0.001", the printer's resolution.) BLISS macro preprocessor (CMU: Back in the early days of BLISS) string oriented programming language compiler (Stan Rabinowitz, long time TECO author and advocate. His compiler generated TECO code.) arbitrary precision PI calculator (MIT?) There's a TECO archive at ftp://usc.edu/pub/teco/ which includes the source for TOPS-10 TECO. -- <> Eric (Ric) Werme <> This space under reconstruction <> <> <> <>