From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Another iteration on the Emacs website
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 09:30:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bn9w6s46.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2zixg5uz9.fsf@fastmail.com>
> From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:14:18 -0500
>
> Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> >> [2] The only other projects of similar age which come to
> >> (my) mind are the X Window System and the TeX familiy of
> >> programs.
> >
> > Maybe you forgot some GNU projects, like Hurd, glibc, Bash, GCC, GDB,
> > Octave, and Texinfo.
>
> Depends on what you mean by similar age.
>
> 1978 TeX
> 1983 AMS-TeX
> 1984 X
> 1984 Emacs
> 1985 LaTeX
> 1986 GDB
> 1987 GCC
> 1988 glibc
> 1989 Bash
> 1990 Hurd
> 1992 Octave ("conceived" 1988)
Emacs started the GNU project, so it's a small wonder it predates any
other GNU package. Also, first versions of GCC and GDB were written
by Richard, which is another reason why they came after Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-12 7:30 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
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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