Path: csiph.com!news.nrbbs.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer04.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx35.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.emacs Subject: Re: Emacs Turns 50 References: <11bujmd$31udl$1@dont-email.me> Message-ID: <87mrroj77j.fsf@fuhgitabutit.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SrPqW6Bf8+bBlSiJbWGai8Jsnok= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 19 X-Complaints-To: abuse(at)newshosting.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2026 03:19:29 UTC Organization: Newshosting.com - Highest quality at a great price! www.newshosting.com Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:19:28 -0800 X-Received-Bytes: 1386 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:236528 comp.emacs:2622 Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: > A brief little retrospective on the history of Emacs, on the occasion > of its 50th birthday > . > Before it was reimplemented in Lisp, the original version was written > in TECO, a language that I once heard characterized as bearing a > remarkable resemblance to transmission line noise. Fifty years of amazing software, wow. There aren't many packages in the wild today that can claim such longevity and success. It was roughly twenty years old when I began using it - and even then it was mature. Mind blown. -- Daniel sysop | air & wave bbs finger | info@bbs.airandwave.net