From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: print out all members of a list, v.1.0
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:24:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-33BE58.22241704032011@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 878vwvuq3o.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com
In article <878vwvuq3o.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com>,
"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> > Emacs Lisp is mostly a reimplementation of MockLisp, the dialect that
> > was used in Gosling Emacs, which was the original inspiration for GNU
> > Emacs. It's also very much like MACLISP, the dialect that RMS had been
> > using for over a decade.
> >
> > So he didn't design his own language, he was basically sticking with
> > what he knew and liked.
>
> MacLisp probably. CL is inspired a lot from MacLisp too. But I've
> read that MockLisp was far from being a full lisp (as its name would
> imply), and that it was probably the reason why RMS had to write a new
> real lisp for his emacs.
I think he may have taken much inspiration from Multics Maclisp and the
macros used in Multics Emacs. For example, I think that's where
save-excursion came from. It was also case-sensitive, unlike PDP-10
MACLISP.
I imagine this is the only good thing RMS would admit came out of
Multics. He wasn't a big fan of the OS because security was one of its
central features.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-05 3:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-28 15:20 print out all members of a list ken
2011-02-28 16:50 ` Teemu Likonen
2011-02-28 17:21 ` ken
2011-02-28 18:25 ` print out all members of a list, v.1.0 ken
2011-02-28 18:32 ` print out all members of a list Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-28 20:26 ` PJ Weisberg
[not found] ` <mailman.5.1298917525.1451.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-28 21:32 ` print out all members of a list, v.1.0 Tim X
2011-03-01 5:48 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-01 6:02 ` rusi
2011-03-02 4:51 ` Barry Margolin
2011-03-02 5:33 ` rusi
2011-03-02 11:56 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-03 0:36 ` Barry Margolin
2011-03-03 9:02 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-03 15:37 ` rusi
2011-03-03 16:00 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-04 2:34 ` Barry Margolin
2011-03-04 4:09 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-04 10:39 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-04 11:06 ` David Kastrup
2011-03-05 3:24 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1298913700.1451.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-01 5:41 ` print out all members of a list Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-01 11:33 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-03-01 11:44 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.5.1298979610.15512.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-01 13:10 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-01 14:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-01 14:50 ` Le Wang
2011-03-01 15:10 ` Richard Riley
2011-03-01 18:39 ` Andreas Röhler
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