teco user’s guideRemember the song from Musical Geek Friday #7 - Just One More Hack? I said that it was the only song ever about a debugger. I must admit that I was wrong! This week I bring to you another song about a debugger - the DDT debugger (and the ancient TECO text editor).

TECO stands for Text Editor and COrrector. It was developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was one of the first text editors ever written. It grew over the years, gaining popularity and features. Along the way, it also became a Turing-complete programming language. Several sets of editor macros were developed and used. I was surprised to find that around 1975 Richard Stallman organized these Editor MACroS into the first Emacs-like text editor. Here is an article about the history of TECO.

DDT, on the other hand, was a collection of several debugger programs. These debugging programs included a command shell from which TECO was also used interchangeably with DDT. DDT stands for Dynamic Debugging Technique (initially known as DEC Debugging Tape).

Talking about the 10th geek song, it's written and performed by a band called "red martian".

Enough of facts, here is the TECO and DDT song:

Download this song: catonmat.net/ftp/red_martian-teco_and_ddt.mp3

Download lyrics: catonmat.net/ftp/red_martian-teco_and_ddt-lyrics.txt

TECO and DDT Lyrics:

Oh, you can hack anything that you want with just TECO and DDT. You can hack anything that you want with just TECO and DDT! Oh, no, you don't have to tell me what would I need because it's simply plain to see... That I can hack anything that I want with just TECO and DDT! Yeaha! Oh, you can hack anything that you want with just TECO and DDT. Oh, you can hack anything that you want with just TECO and DDT! Oh, no, you don't have to tell me what would I need because it's simply plain to see... That I can hack anything that I want with just TECO, just TECO, just TECO and DDT!

I'd like to thank Adam for letting me know about this song.

Download "TECO and DDT" Song

Download this song: catonmat.net/ftp/red_martian-teco_and_ddt.mp3

Download lyrics: catonmat.net/ftp/red_martian-teco_and_ddt-lyrics.txt

Have fun and until next geeky Friday!