www/gnu rms-lisp.html

[Karl Berry]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Karl Berry <karl>       07/07/09 00:44:28

Modified files:
        gnu            : rms-lisp.html 

Log message:
        corrections, ticket 338787

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/gnu/rms-lisp.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.12&r2=1.13

Patches:
Index: rms-lisp.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/gnu/rms-lisp.html,v
retrieving revision 1.12
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -b -r1.12 -r1.13
--- rms-lisp.html       19 Jun 2007 00:03:59 -0000      1.12
+++ rms-lisp.html       9 Jul 2007 00:44:14 -0000       1.13
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
 seemed to be influenced by the same spirit of sharing and cooperation
 of the original Emacs. I first released the original Emacs to people
 at <abbr>MIT</abbr>. Someone wanted to port it to run on Twenex &mdash; it
-originally only ran on the incompatible timesharing system we used
+originally only ran on the Incompatible Timesharing System we used
 at <abbr>MIT</abbr>. They ported it to Twenex, which meant that there
 were a few hundred installations around the world that could
 potentially use it. We started distributing it to them, with the rule
@@ -170,18 +170,18 @@
 in and make the program better. But after that he seemed to change the
 spirit, and sold it to a company.</p>
 
-<p>At the time that I was working on the GNU system (a free software
+<p>At that time I was working on the GNU system (a free software
 Unix-like operating system that many people erroneously call
-&ldquo;Linux&rdquo;).  There was no free software Emacs editor that
-ran on Unix. I did, however, have a friend who had participated in
-developing Gosling's Emacs. Gosling had given him, by email,
-permission to distribute his own version. He proposed to me that I use
-that version. Then I discovered that Gosling's Emacs did not have a
-real Lisp. It had a programming language that was known as
-&lsquo;mocklisp&rsquo;, which looks syntactically like Lisp, but
-didn't have the data structures of Lisp.  So programs were not data,
-and vital elements of Lisp were missing.  Its data structures were
-strings, numbers and a few other specialized things.</p>
+&ldquo;Linux&rdquo;).  There was no free software Emacs editor that ran
+on Unix. I did, however, have a friend who had participated in
+developing Gosling's Emacs. Gosling had given him, by email, permission
+to distribute his own version. He proposed to me that I use that
+version. Then I discovered that Gosling's Emacs did not have a real
+Lisp. It had a programming language that was known as
+&lsquo;mocklisp&rsquo;, which looks syntactically like Lisp, but didn't
+have the data structures of Lisp.  So programs were not data, and vital
+elements of Lisp were missing.  Its data structures were strings,
+numbers and a few other specialized things.</p>
 
 <p>I concluded I couldn't use it and had to replace it all, the first
 step of which was to write an actual Lisp interpreter. I gradually
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2007/06/19 00:03:59 $
+$Date: 2007/07/09 00:44:14 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>