On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Mr. Cranky Pants!! wrote:

> I don't know TECO, as I have never used it.  But I know James Gosling (yeah,
> THAT James Gosling) wrote the original Emacs (NOT GNU Emacs, but the
> original Emacs) using TECO macros.

That's correct - EMACS stands for Editing MACroS.  PDP10 EMACS was written
in TECO.  (Lots of things are in TECO.  Some of the system-generation
sequence for TOPS-10 was a TECO macro.)

> GNU Emacs, of course, was written originally almost entirely by Richard
> Stallman (yeah, THAT Richard Stallman) using a little C and a lot of LISP.
> After version 0.8, it has been added to by a lot of people.

RMS also worked on chunks of the ITS.  He offends people now and then, but
he's not that bad a person.