26 Feb
2017
26 Feb
'17
9:52 p.m.
Tim Bradshaw <tfb(a)tfeb.org> wrote:
OK, then Gosling just had the idea of including lisp.
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 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
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