CR/LF problems after upgrade
Cary Jamison
Cary_Jamison@Symantec.com
Fri Jan 19 01:48:00 GMT 2007
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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