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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:25:31 -0600
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ports from GPL
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On Fri Mar 17 09:22:42 CST 2006, 9fans@ducky.net wrote:
>
> Emacs and Info clearly originated on MIT's "ITS" operating system,
> and were originally written by Richard Stallman, as was today's
> widely used GNU Emacs.  GCC had its roots in a "portable optimizer"
> paper written by someone at Arizona (I think), but GCC itself was
> coded in a heavily Lisp-influenced style, again by Richard Stallman.
>

it seems that gcc rtl would discredit the "portable optimizer" idea.

- erik