Think you’re tough because you use Vi or Emacs? Or even ed? “Real Programmers” don’t think so.
“”Real Programmers” FTW #emacs #teco https://t.co/cEUEwClDBg pic.twitter.com/Jwvs87X1AY
— (((bob pasker))) (@rbpasker) January 31, 2021
It’s hard to see the entire text in the embedded tweet. It says,
Some of the concepts in these Xerox editors have been incorporated into editors running on more reasonably named operating systems. EMACS and VI are probably the most well known of this class of editors. The problem with these editors is that Real Programmers consider “what you see is what you get” to be just as bad a concept in text editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a “you asked for it, you got it” text editor – complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. TECO, to be precise.
Oddly, I know of some oldtimers who claim to still use TECO. I can’t believe they use it as their everyday editor though. Probably it’s more a matter of firing it up once in a while to keep current like I do with ed.
You can read a bit more about TECO and the other things that “Real Programmers” do at the link in the tweet.