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Re: CR/LF problems after upgrade


Shankar Unni wrote:
> PS Real programmers can (could? by definition?) read punched cards by
> holding them up to the light. Oh, and at normal (human) reading
> speeds, too.

Nah, real programmers use TECO - here's proof!

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html


One guy I worked with wrote a TECO macro to open all the source files on the 
system and replace a system call in them!  I think it looked something like 
a bunch of cartoon cusswords.

Or, to quote from the above article:

It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles 
transmission line noise than readable text[4]. One of the more entertaining 
games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to 
guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with 
TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse-- introduce subtle 
and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine.

Cary




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