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1. Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 09:34:18 JST Thomas

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   • Ramin Honary

   @ramin_hal9001 Oh the story is much more interesting. James Gosling wrote Emacs for Unix. Richard Stallman stole his implementation, and just changed the copyright notices on the files, and that became GNU Emacs.

   Check out Gosling’s recounting of the story here, including why he let him get away with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6XHroNewc&t=9896s

   BTW, if you look into the sources of that github repo, the .ml files are elisp. Those little summaries that GH gives you of what languages are used, aren’t especially accurage.

   #Emacs

   • Ramin Honary (ramin_hal9001@emacs.ch)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 09:34:20 JST Ramin Honary

     • Inhabitant of Carcosa :emacs:

     According to this source on GitHub, before James Gosling invented the #Java programming language, he had implemented his own clone of #Emacs in the early #1980s written in C. This was done because an Emacs-like editor had not been ported to proprietary Unix systems at the time (this was before GNU was a thing). The code is now "open sourced," but the licensing is unclear. Still, might be worth a look for anyone who is interested in #TextEditor and programming languages.
     https://github.com/bobbae/gosling-emacs

     (EDIT: correction, thanks to @carcosa -- ML is "MockLisp", not Standard ML.)

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.