Abstract

Surveyord Forum The commands which our editors provide for Lisp programs include moving over and deleting s-expressions, moving to the beginning or end of the current function definition, automatic indentation of new lines or old ones, automatic indentation of new or old comments, and finding quickly {without searching) the definition of named function. Further information is available in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory memo, "An Introduction to EMACS." In closing, I note that Lisp 1.6 was an improvement of an early MACLISP, but the current export version of MACLISP has superseded it. It is not true that our PDP10 editor is a "variant of the standard DEC text-editor, TECO." In fact, DEC's editor is a variant of an early and quite primitive version of MIT's editor, TECO, which has since become a language for writing the editors. RICHARD STALLMAN Â° M I T Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 545 Technology Square Cambridge, Mass. 02139 Author's Reply Two current Lisp systems, MACLISP and INTERLISP, represent different approaches to editing and maintenance of programs; the relative merits of these approaches has been debated intensively for a long time. In the paper, I tried to summarize the pros and cons of both approaches,

Journal

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Dec 1, 1978