Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!THEORY.LCS.MIT.EDU!bard From: bard@THEORY.LCS.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: Scheme Digest #22 Message-ID: <8812031540.AA00290@toucan.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 3 Dec 88 15:40:26 GMT References: <8812030543.AA12348@theory.LCS.MIT.EDU> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 14 > > Forgive my stupidity on this answer - but wasn't EMACS originally written in > Lisp, like way way back. (i.e. before we were scheme'ing) > EMACS was first written in TECO. TECO is an editor with a powerful command language, so powerful that it is a general purpose programming language. TECO is distinguished as the language in which optimally-formatted programs look the most like line noise: the commands are mostly control-characters with arguments. Even assembly language, optimally formatted, is clearly text. -- Bard