[ale] Party like it is 1995

[Steve Litt]

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

Steve Litt
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