Programming in Honeywell TEX Language
Derek Peschel
>Hi Folks,
>
>Does anyone remember programming in TEX on the Honeywell 6000 system?
>Not to
>be confused with DOnald Knuth's TeX publishing language.
I think the TeXBook actually mentions TEX, to prevent confusion. It's the
"Text Executive", right? It sounds like a screen display and macro package.
(Don't CICS and ISPF do the same thing?)
Unfortunately, I've never actually seen it. Sorry!
-- Derek
Eric Fischer
> Does anyone remember programming in TEX on the Honeywell 6000 system?
> Not to be confused with DOnald Knuth's TeX publishing language.
I've never used it, but I read about it in the August, 1978 issue of
Interface Age magazine. It was promoted by Robert W. Bemer, better
known for his contributions to COBOL and ASCII.
eric
Jim McArdle
It was a programming language based on the Honeywell/GE TSS line editor. All
variables were global, it could substitute any variable into a line before
executing it and could jump from TEX file to TEX file using labels and goto
stmts or it could call a subroutine (label + return stmt) in another file while
still retaining the variable pool.
It had some unique operators ]' and '] to split a string at given spot saving
the
right part and left part respectively. There were other operators for searching
for
substrings and saving either the left or right part.
The language which come nearest to it is perhaps AWK, but AWK scripts can't jump
across to other AWK scripts.
We used it to construct huge testing scripts to verify that each new release of
Honeywell timesharing worked as advertized with no adverse side-effects.
Derek Peschel wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:31:44 -0600, Jim McArdle <mca...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> >Hi Folks,
> >
> >Does anyone remember programming in TEX on the Honeywell 6000 system?
> >Not to
> >be confused with DOnald Knuth's TeX publishing language.
>