26 Feb
2017
26 Feb
'17
9:37 p.m.
On 26 Feb 2017, at 14:54, Joerg Schilling
<schily(a)schily.net> 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).
There's no doubt that GNU Emacs had its roots in Gosling Emacs, but only in much the
same way that FreeBSD has its roots in 6th edition Unix.
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).
--tim