[TUHS] History of m6?

[Mike Markowski]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 7:21 AM Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:

> Thomas Paulsen wrote:
> >   'T'was before my time, but the legend has it that the original BLISS-10
> >   bootstrap compiler was a set of TECO macros that Chuck Geschke (Adobe's
> >   founder) wrote.'
> >
> > Really? TECO = Tape Editor and Corrector
>
> Why not?  TECO is both an editor and a programming language.  The first
> Emacs was written in TECO.
>

Pi calculated with teco:  http://www.iwriteiam.nl/HaPi_TECO_macro.html
This impresses me, partly because it looks like someone fell asleep on a
keyboard.
Running it just now:

  qsb$ tecoc mung pi.tec,30
  314159265358979323846264338327

Mike Markowski
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