[comp.emacs] Hemlock EMACS

dzzr@beta.UUCP (Douglas J Roberts) (06/03/88)

Does anyone out there know anything about Hemlock EMACS? I heard that it
was written by Carnegie Melon. Specifically, how does it compare to Gnu?
--Doug

Doug Roberts
Los Alamos National Laboratory
dzzr@lanl.gov

cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (06/07/88)

In article <19779@beta.UUCP>, dzzr@beta.UUCP (Douglas J Roberts) writes:
> Does anyone out there know anything about Hemlock EMACS? I heard that it
> was written by Carnegie Melon. Specifically, how does it compare to Gnu?
> --Doug

Hemlock EMACS is used by great philosophers -- but only once. :-)

Sorry, just read Plato's account of Socrates' death, and I couldn't resist.

Clayton E. Cramer

aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) (06/12/88)

>> was written by Carnegie Melon. Specifically, how does it compare to Gnu?

Hemlock, I believe, was written in whatever variety of Lisp the CS department
had running on their Perq's.  I've never used it (my perq was dead before
I got it:-), but people have told me that it was reasonable.

As to how it compares to GNU -- it ran on machines with finite resources
and wasn't endorsed by religious fanatics.

(spare me the flames)
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