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points by fmajid 1 day ago | 0 comments
35 years in my case, thanks to Jean-Jacques Lévy of INRIA. But Emacs was started by James Gosling, not Stallman.
[–] aag 1 day ago
That's simply not true. Gosling wrote a commercial implementation, but Steele and Stallman wrote the first versions of Emacs.
[–] moishe_syzslak 1 day ago
There's a megathread on r/programming about the Gosling/Stallman legal fight, but long story short, the GNU Emacs we know today was continuously built upon a foundation first laid down by Jim Blandy and Stallman. Very little, if any, code from Gosling, Moon, or Steele survives.
[–] steve1977 23 hours ago
But GNU Emacs was not the first incarnation. That was EMACS on some PDP system in the 70s and Richard Stallman was already involved in that. Gosling Emacs only came years later.