bard@THEORY.LCS.MIT.EDU (12/03/88)
> > Forgive my stupidity on this answer - but wasn't EMACS originally written in > Lisp, like way way back. (i.e. before we were scheme'ing) > EMACS was first written in TECO. TECO is an editor with a powerful command language, so powerful that it is a general purpose programming language. TECO is distinguished as the language in which optimally-formatted programs look the most like line noise: the commands are mostly control-characters with arguments. Even assembly language, optimally formatted, is clearly text. -- Bard