From: Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>
To: Mark Skilbeck <m@iammark.us>, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: EMACS, 1976
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:14:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA9812CC470A@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120725114404.GE2818@mark-laptop>
Barry,
I agree entirely. I think I'd rather write assembler.
On the other hand, I'd bet that writing it once in a language such as TECO really helped Stalling consolidate his ideas.
,Doug
> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org] On
> Behalf Of Mark Skilbeck
> Sent: Wednesday, 2012 July 25 07:44
> To: Barry Margolin
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: EMACS, 1976
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 06:36:58AM -0400, Barry Margolin wrote:
> > In article <mailman.5547.1343209085.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
> > Mark Skilbeck <m@iammark.us> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, fellow Emacsen (Emacsians?).
> > >
> > > I've been reading RMS's essay, EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable
> > > Display Editor[0], and it's piqued an interest in me; I would like
> to
> > > view the code that made up the first EMACS release in 1976. Have it
> > > any of you lads and lasses, or know where it I may find?
> >
> > I googled for "teco emacs" and found this:
> >
> > http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/mit_emacs_170_teco_1220/index.html
> >
> > Good luck understanding TECO.
> >
>
> I can quite comfortably say I do *not* envy Stallman's having to write
> that.
>
> --
> - mgs.
>
> if all you young men / were fish in the water
> how many young girls / would undress and dive after
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-07-25 10:36 ` EMACS, 1976 Barry Margolin
2012-07-25 11:44 ` Mark Skilbeck
2012-07-25 13:14 ` Doug Lewan [this message]
2012-07-25 13:27 ` Peter Davis
2012-07-25 16:53 ` Ludwig, Mark
2012-07-25 9:37 Mark Skilbeck
2012-07-25 9:43 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-07-25 9:52 ` Mark Skilbeck
2012-07-25 9:44 ` Mark Skilbeck
2012-07-26 14:57 ` François Allisson
2012-07-26 15:13 ` Mark Skilbeck
2012-07-26 20:26 ` Christophe Poncy
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