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Subject: Re: OT editors (was: Another view on analysis and ER)
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David Cressey wrote:

[...]

>Well, I actually go back to paper tape as well.  And, if you want go back
>that far,  my all time favorite was TECO.  TECO was really a string oriented
>programming language,  made to look like a text editor.  The people who
>built EMACS got some of their ideas from TECO.

(That makes sense: Emacs started out as a set of TECO macros.)

-- 
Reinier
