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Scheme Digest #22
- To: Scheme@mc.lcs.mit.edu
- Subject: Scheme Digest #22
- From: bard@theory.lcs.mit.edu
- Date: Sat ,3 Dec 88 11:40:26 EDT
- In-reply-to: Automatic Scheme Digestifier's message of 3 DEC 88 00:09:03 EST <8812030543.AA12348@theory.LCS.MIT.EDU>
>
> Forgive my stupidity on this answer - but wasn't EMACS originally written in
> Lisp, like way way back. (i.e. before we were scheme'ing)
>
EMACS was first written in TECO. TECO is an editor with a powerful
command language, so powerful that it is a general purpose programming
language. TECO is distinguished as the language in which optimally-formatted
programs look the most like line noise: the commands are mostly
control-characters with arguments. Even assembly language, optimally
formatted, is clearly text.
-- Bard