Multics Emacs (Prose and Cons): A commercial text-processing system in Lisp

Authors:
Bernard S. Greenberg
Affiliations:
-
Venue:
LFP '80 Proceedings of the 1980 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming
Year:
1980

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Abstract

This paper addresses the choice of Lisp as the implementation language, and its consequences, including some of the implementation issues. The detailed history of Multics Emacs, its system-level design considerations, and its impact on Multics and its user community are discussed in [Greenberg]. One of the immediate and profound consequences of this choice has been to assert Lisp's adequacy, indeed, superiority, as a full-fledged systems and applications programming language. Multics Emacs has established an awareness of Lisp in quarters where the term had never been heard.