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Apparently it's 1981 - RMS started with the codebase of Gosling Emacs, but then quickly rewrote most of it when he replaced the Lisp implementation. Still, the
by sho_hn 4y ago
Apparently it's 1981 - RMS started with the codebase of Gosling Emacs, but then quickly rewrote most of it when he replaced the Lisp implementation. Still, the blank-file moment was apparently with Gosling.
- kazinator 4y agoGosling is famous for (well, not really) something called Mock Lisp: an evaluation language that worked over text that contains parentheses, evaluating the literal character-level representation. This was used in an Emacs-like editor Gosling wrote. It must be that one. I'm guessing Stallman would have been replacing Mock Lisp with a real Lisp. EDIT: well, doh, the Wikipedia page on GNU Emacs (which I have never visited until now, since I don't use Emacs) confirms that: "GNU Emacs was initially based on Gosling Emacs, but Stallman's replacement of its Mocklisp interpreter with a true Lisp interpreter required that nearly all of its code be rewritten." The existence of this relationship explains why there is a MockLisp article in the Wikipedia at all.