···@apple.com (Tim Olson) writes:
> 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".
Almost right. Gosling EMACS was the first C emacs; dunno what macro
structure it uses/used. Stallman wrote the first EMACS in TECO, and
later migrated it to the C/Lisp combination we know (and love?) today.
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