[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5
Johnny Billquist
bqt at softjar.se
Wed Nov 15 17:29:46 EST 2023
On 2023-11-15 22:44, TimS wrote:
> On 15 Nov 2023 at 20:59:37 GMT, "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
>> On 2023-11-15 18:04, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo at eircom.net> writes:
>>>> Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>>>> Well. I don't fully agree with that, but I'm fine with just disagreeing
>>>>> without getting into any further discussions. I can certainly dig up
>>>>> other tools under Unix which left the "unix paradigm" behind a long time
>>>>> ago, if you want.
>>>>
>>>> Emacs springs to mind.
>>>
>>> Originated outside Unix, I think.
>>
>> Yes. PDP-10s. If it was ITS or TOPS-20 at the start, I dare not say.
>> Written in TECO.
>
> In commands that look like line-noise.
It has been described as a write-only language. Not undeservedly.
That said - I do like to use TECO once in a while. It's still a pretty
good tool.
Johnny
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