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Re: Another iteration on the Emacs website
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Another iteration on the Emacs website |
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Sun, 28 Feb 2016 05:24:05 -0500 |
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> Since I am so good at maths, I have calculated that sometimes this year,
> it's Emacs' 40th birthday! Can we make it even more specific with a date,
> perhaps, so that those of us that wants to can celebrate with some cake? :)
I don't have any records of when the first Emacs was usable for editing.
It would have been some time in late 1976, I think.
But it may not have been an identifiable moment, anyway. I probably
started editing with Emacs when it was not really ready to ask anyone
else to use.
One option is to imitate Christian practice by fictionally attributing
to this event a date that is celebrated for some other reason. Thus,
we could celebrate Emacs's birth on Grav-Mass day, December 25.
(See stallman.org/grav-mass.html.)
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Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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