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		jimbokun 39 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Two Years of Emacs Solo But if you were implementing it in 1976 you would have.

pkal 39 days ago [–]

But in 1976 Emacs was implemented in TECO. In 1984 it was implemented in Lisp, because Multics Emacs _or_ EINE/ZWEI (Lisp Machine editors) were using Lisp as an extension language, which apparently has shown itself to be useful.

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