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Article #185Re: TECO (was Re: spacewar and TECO)
From: Ed McGuire,1410 EB,,
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 14:13
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 14:13
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>From article <44...@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, by a...@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Al Thompson): > I once worked with a guy who'd had a CS prof tell him that Lisp was "the > only language in which it is possible to code the Towers of Hanoi". Well, > my friend thought that just a little absurd. So, every time he learned a > new language he'd code up the Towers of Hanoi and send the listing to his > old prof. One day he learned TECO. I've got a TECO macro which computes pi to an arbitrary number of digits. The operator types MUNG PI 100 to get 100 digits of pi. No idea who wrote it. It appears to use the editing buffer as a FIFO.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!ns-mx!cadfx From: emcguire@cadfx (Ed McGuire,1410 EB,,) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: TECO (was Re: spacewar and TECO) Message-ID: <341@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Date: 22 Dec 89 14:13:46 GMT References: <44733@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Sender: ne...@ns-mx.uiowa.edu Distribution: alt Lines: 10 Posted: Fri Dec 22 15:13:46 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit