Tim Bradshaw wrote: > > > On 26 Feb 2017, at 14:54, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > > GNU EMACS is based on the Gosling EMACS and this did already include the LISP > > interpreter. > > Well, Gosling Emacs had mocklisp which, despite its name, isn't a Lisp. GNU Emacs has elisp which *is* a Lisp (albeit a fairly horrid one). OK, then Gosling just had the idea of including lisp. > There's also no real doubt that RMS was responsible for Emacs *as an idea* as opposed to any particular implementation (Guy Steele is I think the other person who might be held responsible, but I believe he's said that it was RMS, which is good enough for me). I am sure that emacs would be unknown today in case that Gosling did not write the C-implementation. A macro set for a closed source editor on a dying architecture (PDP-11) would have died as well. Jörg -- EMail:joerg at schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/