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Gosling Emacs (often shortened to "Gosmacs" or "gmacs") is a discontinued Emacs implementation written in 1981 by James Gosling in C. [1] Gosling initially allowed Gosling Emacs to be redistributed with no formal restrictions, as required by the "Emacs commune" since the 1970s, [2] only asking for a letter acknowledging his authorship. [3]
James Arthur Gosling OC (born 19 May 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language. [3]Gosling was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for the conception and development of the architecture for the Java programming language and for contributions to window systems.
GNU Emacs offered more features than Gosling Emacs, in particular a full-featured Lisp as its extension language, and soon replaced Gosling Emacs as the de facto Unix Emacs editor. Markus Hess exploited a security flaw in GNU Emacs' email subsystem in his 1986 cracking spree in which he gained superuser access to Unix computers. [34]
"MLisp" is also another name for Mocklisp, a stripped-down version of Lisp used as an extension language in Gosling Emacs. MLISP is a variant of Lisp with an Algol-like syntax based on M-Expressions, which were the function syntax in the original description of Lisp by John McCarthy. McCarthy's M-expressions were never implemented in an exact form.
JOVE (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs) [1] is an open-source, Emacs-like text editor, primarily intended for Unix-like operating systems. It also supports MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. JOVE was inspired by Gosling Emacs but is much smaller and simpler, lacking Mocklisp.
For the award show production, Gosling, who played Ken in the movie, was joined by more than 62 dancing Kens, 24 Barbie heads, Slash from Guns N' Roses and a 40-piece orchestra, according to Variety.
Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes brought their two daughters to the 2024 Paris Olympics, in a very rare public outing. The actors and their daughters, 9-year-old Esmeralda and 8-year-old Amada watched ...
The Emacs category is intended to contain all articles relating to the extended Emacs family of text editors. This included both editors that claim to be an emacs, and plug-in packages that extends one of the emacsen.