From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gottlieb@nyu.edu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?" Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:47:26 -0400 Message-ID: <87ob9jv9lt.fsf@nyu.edu> References: <87y58pplcp.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87fvuwgsv0.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <075751cf-97a3-4d01-8fb1-4ffbc0180f3f@googlegroups.com> <878v0oxfdw.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375231679 12434 80.91.229.3 (31 Jul 2013 00:47:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:47:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 31 02:47:59 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 1V4Ka6-0003Fw-Tx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 02:47:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58880 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4Ka6-0007Di-7Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:47:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47976) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4KZq-0007DY-95 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:47:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4KZi-0006ov-Pt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu ([128.122.49.97]:63308) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4KZi-0006on-Ml for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from newlap-wireless.localdomain (ool-182de1a5.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.225.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r6V0lRiJ002740 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:47:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by newlap-wireless.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8F7BEA041E; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:47:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <878v0oxfdw.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:59:39 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 128.122.49.97 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:92574 Archived-At: On Tue, Jul 30 2013, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Rustom Mody writes: > >> [And oldtimers will remember SetL] > > Never heard of. What is that, set theory + programming, as in the > "set language"? Yes (set language). Developed at New York University (my home institution) originally by Jack Schwartz. The first validated Ada "complier" (it actually was an interpreter) was written in setl. allan