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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lisp
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 07:15:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7w8sfrj0xp.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87mu48hv8c.fsf@gmail.com

Mingde (Matthew) Zeng wrote:
> RMS wrote:
>> I was on the team that developed the Lisp Machine operating system,
>> but that is not why I love Lisp.  It's the other way around: I did
>> that because I love Lisp.
>
> So, why did you love Lisp in the first place? ;-)

Not to answer for RMS', but to add a bit of historical context.

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.  Many AI researchers and
ITS hackers used Maclisp, and many prominent Lisp features first saw the
light of day here.




  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-10  7:15 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       ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2020-07-11  2:17         ` Lisp Richard Stallman
2020-07-11  6:48           ` Lisp Lars Brinkhoff
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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