www/gnu rms-lisp.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       07/11/26 05:37:50

Modified files:
        gnu            : rms-lisp.html 

Log message:
        Add footnotes 6 and 7.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/gnu/rms-lisp.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.16&r2=1.17

Patches:
Index: rms-lisp.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/gnu/rms-lisp.html,v
retrieving revision 1.16
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -b -r1.16 -r1.17
--- rms-lisp.html       19 Nov 2007 10:01:38 -0000      1.16
+++ rms-lisp.html       26 Nov 2007 05:37:36 -0000      1.17
@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@
 facilities, so they added some. For instance, one of the first was a
 looping construct, which was &lt; &gt;. You would put those around
 things and it would loop. There were other cryptic commands that could
-be used to conditionally exit the loop. To make Emacs, we added
+be used to conditionally exit the loop. To make Emacs, we
+<a href="#foot-7">(7)</a> added
 facilities to have subroutines with names. Before that, it was sort of
 like Basic, and the subroutines could only have single letters as
 their names. That was hard to program big programs with, so we added
@@ -319,7 +320,7 @@
 want to spend years and years punishing someone, just thwarting an
 evil deed. I figured they had been punished pretty thoroughly because
 they were stuck with competition that was not leaving or going to
-disappear. Meanwhile, it was time to start building a new community to
+disappear<a href="#foot-6">(6)</a>. Meanwhile, it was time to start building a 
new community to
 replace the one that their actions and others had wiped out.</p>
 
 <p>The Lisp community in the 70s was not limited to
@@ -508,6 +509,15 @@
 implementation of Emacs for the Lisp Machine came before Greenberg's
 implementation for Multics.  I apologize for the mistake.</p>
 
+<p> <a name="foot-6">(6)</a> Symbolics at one point protested to MIT that
+my work, by thwarting their plan, had cost Symbolics a million dollars.</p>
+
+<p> <a name="foot-7">(7)</a> Guy Steele designed the original symmetrical
+Emacs command set; then he and I began implementing Emacs (on top of
+TECO), but Steele dropped out after one night so I finished Emacs.
+Others particularly including Eugene C. Cicciarelli and Mike McMahon
+contributed substantially later on.</p>
+
 <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
 
 <div id="footer">
@@ -540,7 +550,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2007/11/19 10:01:38 $
+$Date: 2007/11/26 05:37:36 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>