From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 22:58:28 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87a9iegq9e.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <6a370ecf-5ddc-4e5b-8553-189949a495fe@googlegroups.com> <87fvs6gr4q.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381611625 31138 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2013 21:00:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 21:00:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 12 23:00:31 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1VV6IY-0004XA-67 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 23:00:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59340 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VV6IX-0002tY-Ny for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:00:29 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Qt0713YNlIrtFRhCqivXODMdiwU= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201698 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93965 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Well, no disrespect to the 1985 people, but didn't > countless of people work on Emacs, every single day > since, and still do? > > I know RMS was the sole maintainer for a long time. Is > there any data on how many people, from what > countries, etc., etc., worked on Emacs? Where did it > start? Some Lispers at MIT? > > I know that Emacs-w3m is done by Japanese programmers. > > On Usenet, most people seem to be from northern > Europe. (I have to admit that Sweden's contribution > cannot compare to our neighbours. That's why *I* am so > active, ha ha.) USA, of course. > > The excellent Russian (and ex-USSR) and the very > skilled Latino hackers are not here, for the > ridiculous reason they are not comfortable with the > English language! That's a huge loss for *us*, so > *speak*! Perhaps I should have said... those are generalizations, and should not be "applied", and certainly not to any one individual or whatever, if you get my thinking. -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573