From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lisp
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 06:48:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wwo3afsxz.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ju54r-0001Zi-D9@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:17:21 -0400")
Richard Stallman wrote:
> > Emacs, Lisp, and the Lisp Machine all came from the MIT AI lab. The
> > predecessor to the lispm was Maclisp running on ITS, which also hosted
> > the TECO editor used to build the first Emacs.
>
> That is mostly true but not 100%. Lisp was invented in 1958, or close
> to that. The AI lab and Project MAC were started in the 1960s.
That is true. There was some kind of "AI group" started in the late 50s
By McCarthy and Minsky, but I don't know to which extent it was a formal
entity. I wanted to simplify things by lumping this project together
with the formal AI lab.
But maybe we're getting off topic for this mailing list.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-11 6:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-09 0:58 Lisp sergio hernandez
2020-07-09 8:31 ` Lisp Eric S Fraga
2020-07-09 9:04 ` Lisp tomas
2020-07-09 8:49 ` Lisp tomas
2020-07-09 8:55 ` (Correction: Re: Lisp) tomas
2020-07-10 3:56 ` Lisp Richard Stallman
2020-07-10 4:03 ` Lisp Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-07-10 7:15 ` Lisp Lars Brinkhoff
2020-07-11 2:17 ` Lisp Richard Stallman
2020-07-11 6:48 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2020-07-11 15:25 ` Lisp Drew Adams
2020-07-11 16:47 ` Lisp Lars Brinkhoff
2020-07-11 17:27 ` Lisp Drew Adams
2020-07-11 19:11 ` Lisp Yuri Khan
2020-07-11 2:18 ` Lisp Richard Stallman
2020-07-11 16:51 ` Lisp Lars Brinkhoff
2020-07-10 10:31 ` Lisp tomas
2020-07-12 2:03 ` Lisp 황병희
2020-07-12 19:09 ` Lisp sergio hernandez
2020-07-10 13:22 ` Lisp Arthur Miller
2020-07-10 15:49 ` Lisp tomas
2020-07-10 5:39 ` Lisp Jean Louis
2020-07-11 2:21 ` Lisp Richard Stallman
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