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Patrick Wendo

who often proclaimed that Emacs was more of an operating system than an editor.

Wait, do you have a link where they would explain why they thought this?

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Brian Richardson

I'm afraid you'll just have to trust me on this one. It's ancient history now.

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peerreynders • Edited

Unix Culture

Sorry but EmacsEditor is a refugee from the long dead culture of LispMachines. It's an asylum seeker in the UnixCulture.

("Lisp Machine" is a generic term. A Lisp Machine is a computer whose operating system and applications are written in Lisp. Example: Genera)

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While browsers aren't implemented in JavaScript one can argue that JavaScript was specifically developed to script page specific automation of the browser runtime and that it was at least in part motivated by doing Scheme in the browser (Is Scheme Lisp).

Also note that GNU uses Guile (based on Scheme) as its "extension language platform" (perhaps inspired by "emacs lisp").