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Re: Lisp


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Lisp
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:17:21 -0400

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  > Emacs, Lisp, and the Lisp Machine all came from the MIT AI lab.  The
  > predecessor to the lispm was Maclisp running on ITS, which also hosted
  > the TECO editor used to build the first Emacs.

That is mostly true but not 100%.  Lisp was invented in 1958, or close
to that.  The AI lab and Project MAC were started in the 1960s.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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