26 October 2022
Entered where: at work
Entered on : My workstation
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Is it weird that i am drawn to archaic software and programming
languages? A while ago i have already posted that i really like
ed as an editor... and this in 2022! Now i have found a new tool
to bring a bit more misery into my life: I discovered TECO...
TECO is a piece of software that had its birth in the time of
teletypes, and in use that shows. You can manipulate text in the
fastest and most terse way possible, e.g. if i would like to
change the word "weird" to "crazy" in the first paragraph of this
text it would look something like this: Sweird$-5D$Icrazy$$
The $ in the former example is generated by hitting the ESC key
in a TECO prompt. So, why i am learning this even more
complex contraption in 2022? Now, on the one hand i really like
the way this type of ancient software can become really really
nice to work with after you have crossed this special treshhold
and let you neurons getting molded to work with new tools. On
the other hand i often type in stuff from a session running on
my mobile phone, and i am notoriously bad with using a touch
display... Whatever, in a way its just a choice of tools, like
a romanian carpenter i know who sticks to completely manual tools
(so, no electrical drill or saw...) because this style of doing
his work seems more "natural" to him.
If you want to try TECO out, it is available here on SDF: just
type tecoc at the console and start your journey down into the
wonderfull madness of TECO
