It is inspired by it as the wikipedia[0] article notes. Both are inspired by Cedar/Mesa[1] from PARC. There is a great video of Eric Bier showing some of cedars capabilities on youtube[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(programming_language) [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4