From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 16:52:40 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? In-Reply-To: <13D1D81F-F878-4D23-922A-279AADF29CFE@tfeb.org> References: <20170226123956.DBD3C18C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <58b2ec12.PWETi07hYb+bxrO0%schily@schily.net> <13D1D81F-F878-4D23-922A-279AADF29CFE@tfeb.org> Message-ID: <58b2f9c8.N21HJWDG1ABXGZ/w%schily@schily.net> 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/