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#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing
Lex Fridman Podcast
What's the Philosophy of Emacs?
The very first Emacs was written as a bunch of macros for the Tico text editor. It's certainly more humane than Tico, which was kind of the common thing in many decks at the time. The original version came from MIT and then other people did their own implementations that were entirely different but had similar philosophy.
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