Hah, is this a troll? It’s a lot older than those editors.
EMACS started as Eugene Ciccareli’ init file for the TECO editor (which was also a programming language) around 1976. Hence the name (Eugene‘s Macros). It was later rewritten in Lisp for Multics, the MIT Lisp Machine (I worked on one for the Xerox lisp machine as well), and later Unix (in those cases using lisp only as an extension language)
Yea I couldn’t resist. I’m actually a huge fan of eMacs although I only only tried it once. I’m not a programmer, just scripts here and there in random attempts with varying success. Thank you for the history tidbit! That is really cool. I love hearing stories about punch card programs and Lisp and any forgotten or slightly forgotten technology for that matter
> Hence the name (Eugene‘s Macros)
Interesting, do you have a source for this? I’ve always read that it stood for Editor MACros, are you saying this is a backronym?
Doesn't seem true, the Wikipedia page for Emacs only mentions Eugene once as one of the early contributors, not as the creator. The original TECO macros were made by Guy L Steele Jr.