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From: |
Matt Lee |
Subject: |
www/gnu rms-lisp.html |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:00:04 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Matt Lee <mattl> 07/11/19 10:00:02
Modified files:
gnu : rms-lisp.html
Log message:
fixing broken anchors
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/gnu/rms-lisp.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.14&r2=1.15
Patches:
Index: rms-lisp.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/gnu/rms-lisp.html,v
retrieving revision 1.14
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -b -r1.14 -r1.15
--- rms-lisp.html 17 Nov 2007 22:44:41 -0000 1.14
+++ rms-lisp.html 19 Nov 2007 09:59:46 -0000 1.15
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
language. In fact, we discovered that the best programming language
for that purpose was Lisp.</p>
-<p>It was Bernie Greenberg, who discovered that it was <a href="(5)">(5)</a>.
He wrote a
+<p>It was Bernie Greenberg, who discovered that it was <a href="#(5)">(5)</a>.
He wrote a
version of Emacs in Multics MacLisp, and he wrote his commands in
MacLisp in a straightforward fashion. The editor itself was written
entirely in Lisp. Multics Emacs proved to be a great success —
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@
like. Greenblatt wanted to start what he called a
“hacker” company. This meant it would be a company run by
hackers and would operate in a way conducive to hackers. Another goal
-was to maintain the AI Lab culture <a href="(1)">(1)</a>. Unfortunately,
Greenblatt didn't
+was to maintain the AI Lab culture <a href="#(1)">(1)</a>. Unfortunately,
Greenblatt didn't
have any business experience, so other people in the Lisp machine
group said they doubted whether he could succeed. They thought that
his plan to avoid outside investment wouldn't work.</p>
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@
systems that both companies had licensed. Nobody had envisioned that
the AI lab's hacker group would be wiped out, but it was.</p>
-<p> So Symbolics came up with a plan <a href="(4)">(4)</a>. They said to the
lab,
+<p> So Symbolics came up with a plan <a href="#(4)">(4)</a>. They said to the
lab,
“We will continue making our changes to the system available for
you to use, but you can't put it into the <abbr>MIT</abbr> Lisp
machine system. Instead, we'll give you access to Symbolics' Lisp
@@ -303,12 +303,12 @@
<p>Up until that point, I hadn't taken the side of either company,
although it made me miserable to see what had happened to our
community and the software. But now, Symbolics had forced the issue.
-So, in an effort to help keep Lisp Machines Inc. going <a href="(2)">(2)</a>
— I began
+So, in an effort to help keep Lisp Machines Inc. going <a href="#(2)">(2)</a>
— I began
duplicating all of the improvements Symbolics had made to the Lisp
machine system. I wrote the equivalent improvements again myself
(i.e., the code was my own).</p>
-<p>After a while <a href="(3)">(3)</a>, I came to the conclusion that it would
be best if I
+<p>After a while <a href="#(3)">(3)</a>, I came to the conclusion that it
would be best if I
didn't even look at their code. When they made a beta announcement
that gave the release notes, I would see what the features were and
then implement them. By the time they had a real release, I did
@@ -476,16 +476,16 @@
</div>
-<p> <a name="(1)">(1)</a> Greenblatt's plan, as I understood it, was to hire
lab people
+<p> <a name="#(1)">(1)</a> Greenblatt's plan, as I understood it, was to hire
lab people
part time, so that they could continue working at the AI Lab.
Symbolics hired them full time instead, so they stopped working at
MIT. </p>
-<p> <a name="(2)">(2)</a> It was not that I cared particularly about the fate
of LMI,
+<p> <a name="#(2)">(2)</a> It was not that I cared particularly about the fate
of LMI,
but rather I did not want to let Symbolics gain through its aggression
against the AI Lab.</p>
-<p> <a name="(3)">(3)</a> This statement has been misconstrued as
+<p> <a name="#(3)">(3)</a> This statement has been misconstrued as
saying that I never, ever looked at Symbolics' code. Actually it says
I did.</p>
@@ -497,14 +497,14 @@
write code in whatever way was best, without concern for what was in
Symbolics' code.</p>
-<p> <a name="(4)">(4)</a> The background of this plan, which I did not
+<p> <a name="#(4)">(4)</a> The background of this plan, which I did not
state explicitly in the talk, is that during an initial period the
ex-AI-Lab hackers, whether at Symbolics or LMI, continued contributing
their changes to the MIT Lisp Machine system — even though the
contract did not require this. Symbolics' plan was to rupture this
cooperation unilaterally.</p>
-<p> <a name="(5)">(5)</a> Bernie Greenberg says that Dan Weinreb's
+<p> <a name="#(5)">(5)</a> Bernie Greenberg says that Dan Weinreb's
implementation of Emacs for the Lisp Machine came before Greenberg's
implementation for Multics. I apologize for the mistake.</p>
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
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-$Date: 2007/11/17 22:44:41 $
+$Date: 2007/11/19 09:59:46 $
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