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Not so nice...
http://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html
Dan Weinreb described it this way:
'(TECO-based) Emacs was created and designed by Guy L. Steele Jr. and David Moon. After they had it working, and it had become established as the standard text editor at the AI lab, Stallman took over its maintenance.'
Am I reading this right? You used to... not be able to see your code verbatim as you were editing it? My god, that sounds horrible.
Stallman did not mention Guy L Steele jr. and Dave Moon. Not so nice... http://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html Dan Weinreb described it this way: '(TECO-based) Emacs was created and designed by Guy L. Steele Jr. and David Moon. After they had it working, and it had become established as the standard text editor at the AI lab, Stallman took over its maintenance.'
Earlier quoted context omitted.
ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-519A.pdf
Yes that is 519A which is not the same as the one I found called just 519. 519A was published 1981, 519 seemingly in 1979.
[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=802784, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=990280
Stallman did not mention Guy L Steele jr. and Dave Moon. Not so nice... http://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html Dan Weinreb described it this way: '(TECO-based) Emacs was created and designed by Guy L. Steele Jr. and David Moon. After they had it working, and it had become established as the standard text editor at the AI lab, Stallman took over its maintenance.'
Bravo comes from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Its orientation
is toward text formatting, and it can display multiple fonts, underlining,
etc. It makes heavy use of a graphical pointing device, the `mouse'
(see Augment). It is not programmable and offers no special help for
editing programs as opposed to text. For more information, see your
local industrial espionage agent.Am I reading this right? You used to... not be able to see your code verbatim as you were editing it? My god, that sounds horrible.
Have you ever used a 300bps modem to connect to the internet? If you did then you would see how avoiding rendering could make you much much more productive.
Let's just say that it WAS tolerable considering that my alternative was to use punchcards. (Imagine long lines for punchcard machines in the basement of the CS building, which smelled of too many students and way too much fear, and waiting six hours for your program to run. Oh, and everything in uppercase...)
Stallman did not mention Guy L Steele jr. and Dave Moon. Not so nice... http://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html Dan Weinreb described it this way: '(TECO-based) Emacs was created and designed by Guy L. Steele Jr. and David Moon. After they had it working, and it had become established as the standard text editor at the AI lab, Stallman took over its maintenance.'
Hmm, this other 1979-era history of Emacs also doesn't mention Steele, though it does mention Weinreb and Moon, whom the author seems to have worked with closely: http://www.multicians.org/mepap.html .