From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Another iteration on the Emacs website Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 05:24:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87h9jpi890.fsf@petton.fr> <20151212001515.GD3192@boo.workgroup> <83bn9w6s46.fsf@gnu.org> <876104kn30.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456655080 24412 80.91.229.3 (28 Feb 2016 10:24:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:24:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mathias Dahl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 28 11:24:32 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aZyWd-0003wf-CB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 11:24:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58299 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZyWc-0007CV-E6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 05:24:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44398) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZyWP-0007BW-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 05:24:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZyWO-0006Nj-It for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 05:24:17 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34369) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZyWN-0006M4-C9; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 05:24:15 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aZyWD-0007NS-TF; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 05:24:06 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Mathias Dahl on Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:54:04 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200753 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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.) -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.