> Richard Gabriel and Guy Steele (MIT AI Lab) wrote the original Emacs
AFAIK the first version of Emacs was written by Richard Stallman and Guy L. Steele, both wikipedia and jwz give partial credit to Stallman.
AFAIK the first version of Emacs was written by Richard Stallman and Guy L. Steele, both wikipedia and jwz give partial credit to Stallman.
EDIT: I forget what he did with redirects from this site, but all he says that I could quickly find is:
Dramatis Personae:
Richard Stallman: creator of Emacs, founder of the FSF.
Eyewitnesses like Ed Schwalenberg (private communication) and the late Daniel Weinberg (search for his revived blog, which also has testimony from David Moon who did a bit of the initial work, and as I recall others) say that RMS arrived a bit late in the game, but deserves great credit for turning their beginning into such a major thing even/especially in the TECO era.
And that's basically RMS's MO, he takes good beginnings and (generally) makes them into rather nice things, GCC might be the only well known exception where he started from scratch, but then again compilers were a pretty well established thing back then. For original ideas and such, look to things like the GPL, and as I recall he is said to have done some important AI research before he got lured away to systems and tools.