From: Tim Olson
Subject: Re: Lisp is alive, was "Re: Common LISP: The Next Generation"
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············@wildcard.demon.co.uk (Cyber Surfer) writes:
> > If memory serves correctly, Gosling is the one after whom Gosling Emacs is
> > named. That was rather LISP-based, was it not?
>
> I've no idea - I've only used Emacs very briefly, but I'm told it
> uses Lisp. So that would answer my question about whether or not
> these people know of Lisp.
It's my impression that the original Gosling EMACS was implemented in
TECO (Text Editor and COrrector) as a set of macros (EMACS stands for
Editor MACroS).
GNU EMACS, written by Richard Stallman, was the first to implement
EMACS on a "LISP substrate".
-- Tim Olson
Apple Computer, Inc.
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From: Erik Naggum
Subject: Re: Lisp is alive, was "Re: Common LISP: The Next Generation"
Date:
Message-ID: <3051817517711854@naggum.no>
[Tim Olson]
| It's my impression that the original Gosling EMACS was implemented in
| TECO (Text Editor and COrrector) as a set of macros (EMACS stands for
| Editor MACroS).
|
| GNU EMACS, written by Richard Stallman, was the first to implement
| EMACS on a "LISP substrate".
it's the other way around. AI Memo 555 of 1981-10-02 is the Emacs Manual
for Twenex Users by Richard M. Stallman. this is the TECO-based Emacs. I
used it for a few years, myself, until they (the evil "they") retired the
DECsystem-20. a few years later, I used a Gosling-derived Emacs on PRIME
systems.
#\Erik
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those who do not know Lisp are doomed to reimplement it