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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/7/2023 5:36 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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.

Many editors come with "programming capabilities".

If we focus on VMS then EDT is a bit primitive, but
EVE not so - TPU is very much a full programming language.

I cannot imagine any text manipulation functionality that
could not be implemented in TPU in relative clean code.

(for those that does not know TPU then it is a procedural
language in the "Pascal family" with a bunch of editor
builtins)

Arne