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 22:39:40 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87fvs6gr4q.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <6a370ecf-5ddc-4e5b-8553-189949a495fe@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381610412 19587 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2013 20:40:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 20:40:12 +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 22:40:17 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 1VV5yy-0001t0-Rh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 22:40:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59296 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VV5yy-0002e9-4u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:40:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 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:pi5Vom/Yq0S3pXFGMFQhc53WUjU= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201694 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:93963 Archived-At: Kai Grossjohann writes: > Emacs was written in 1985, so it will be 30 years old > soon. I think it can go on another 30 years :-) 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*! -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573