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Article #183Re: TECO (was Re: spacewar and TECO)
From: thu... Robert Thurlow
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1989 04:51
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1989 04:51
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a...@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Al Thompson) writes: >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. This brings back fond memories from my undergrad days! The University of British Columbia always used to have, on display for it's open house, solutions to the Towers of Hanoi in every language known so far. They had it in Pascal, C, FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL*, COBOL and others, but the ones I remember best were written in FMT and Texture, two text formatting programs popular on campus at the time. I don't know if they had a TECO version then, though ... Rob T -- Rob Thurlow, thu...@convex.com "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!convex!thu...@convex.com From: thu...@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: TECO (was Re: spacewar and TECO) Message-ID: <4024@convex.UUCP> Date: 16 Dec 89 04:51:02 GMT References: <6877@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1989Dec15.041951.8081@world.std.com> <44733@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Sender: usenet@convex.UUCP Distribution: alt Lines: 19 Posted: Sat Dec 16 05:51:02 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit