Back in the day TECO could take on anything BASIC could do.
Though I've not seen TECO in four decades, I suspect it would be at
least as suitable as Tcl for my current project.
For perspective, my formal CS <term used *loosely*> background includes
CORC/CUPL at Cornell in early 60's and a night school semester of
FORTRAN in early/mid 60's.
> *Any* text editor can be
> used to create program source code. *Most* versions of EMACS (including
> JASSPA MircoEmacs, based on Daniel Lawrence's original MicroEmacs 3.8), are
> extendable (eg they include some sort of programmable scripting language).
>
> Almost all modern text editors are in fact "modeless" character based editors,
> whether they have point-and-click GUIs or not. The *original* TECO was NOT a
> "modeless" character based editor, but was a command-based buffer editor. The
> original editor macros for TECO (the precursor to EMACS) was one of the
> earliest modeless character based editors. Vi is actually a command-based line
> editor.
You speak CS. I don't ;/
I worked for DEC in the 70's. I got an interview because I had no
interest/qualification in 'digital' realm. But power supplies of the day
were primarily linear analog creations. If you used a PDP 11/45 of
suitable vintage (i.e. H720E power supply), you benefited. [If you ever
looked at the schematic of a later H720E and wondered about the presence
of a thermistor where there would be a forward biased diode ...]