[Info-vax] Intel proposal to simplify x86-64

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-06-07 kl. 11:36, skrev Johnny Billquist:
> On 2023-06-07 11:09, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> I must ask (since I have never used TECO).
>>
>> What is the unique feature of TECO that cannot be done
>> with some other tool(s)?
> 
> I don't think there is anything that is that unique.
> However, depending on how you use it, you might need a bunch of other tools 
> to accomplish the same.
> 
> It obviously is an editor. But it's also a programming language that can be 
> twisted into doing a lot of stuff. If you are familiar with sed (a Unix 
> tool), it is somewhat similar. But I'd say TECO can do more. Obviously the 
> original Emacs was written in TECO. There are other editors written in TECO 
> as well. I sometimes use it when I want to do somewhat more complex 
> operations over larger text files where the changes are a bit more complex 
> than just search and replace.
> 
> But writing code in TECO is arcane. It has been described (and not without 
> merit) as a write-only language. Reading it, it looks mostly like line 
> noise. So it's unlikely that most people know it, or want to learn it. So 
> these days, it's mostly old and weird people who might ever use TECO. There 
> might, of course, be various tools and programs existing that are written 
> in TECO, that people use, without knowing how to write TECO themselves...
> 
>    Johnny
> 

So I guess it boils down to what priority VSI should put on TECO.
How many paying custumers are asking for TECO throught official channels.