From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Another iteration on the Emacs website
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 19:15:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87povg4s7i.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CABrcCQ7ViwdrY0v92=dW=nB9B=nCBM6cPYy9Atnv2L4Nk5bfdw@mail.gmail.com
Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com> writes:
> > Since I am so good at maths, I have calculated that sometimes this year,
> > it's Emacs' 40th birthday! Can we make it even more specific with a date,
> > perhaps, so that those of us that wants to can celebrate with some cake? :)
>
> I don't have any records of when the first Emacs was usable for editing.
> It would have been some time in late 1976, I think.
>
> But it may not have been an identifiable moment, anyway. I probably
> started editing with Emacs when it was not really ready to ask anyone
> else to use.
>
> One option is to imitate Christian practice by fictionally attributing
> to this event a date that is celebrated for some other reason. Thus,
> we could celebrate Emacs's birth on Grav-Mass day, December 25.
> (See stallman.org/grav-mass.html.)
>
>
> That, or December 10 (Nobel prize ceremony day)...
This is only logical ;-), but I like December 25 better, it is a better
spin for The Church!
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Kelkheim, Germany
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-11 10:34 Another iteration on the Emacs website Nicolas Petton
2015-12-11 11:03 ` Shakthi Kannan
2015-12-11 12:41 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-11 17:03 ` Shakthi Kannan
2015-12-12 0:35 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-12-11 11:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-11 12:42 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-11 12:26 ` John Yates
2015-12-11 13:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-12-11 15:10 ` Rasmus
2015-12-11 17:11 ` Nikolaus Rath
2015-12-11 17:24 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-12 0:15 ` Gregor Zattler
2015-12-12 0:51 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-12-12 1:14 ` Random832
2015-12-12 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-12 9:55 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-13 6:50 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-27 18:54 ` Mathias Dahl
2016-02-28 10:24 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-28 17:25 ` Mathias Dahl
2016-02-28 18:15 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2016-02-28 23:33 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-29 13:31 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-28 19:55 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-29 13:31 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-12 5:03 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-14 8:46 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-15 3:57 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-15 3:57 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-12 0:25 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-12-12 23:53 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-14 8:37 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-14 20:52 ` Christian Dietrich
2015-12-14 22:19 ` Xavier Maillard
2015-12-15 0:11 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-12-16 21:50 ` zv
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-12-15 3:24 Brian Burns
2015-12-15 10:21 ` Nicolas Petton
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