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1.1 In The Beginning

• In the Beginning was the Command Line
• Emacs began in 1976 https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq/Origin-of-the-term-Emacs.html#Origin-of-the-term-Emacs
• Came from an editor called Teco

From “A Brief History of Guile”: Emacs, when it was first created in its GNU form in 1984, was a new take on the problem of “how to make a program”. The Emacs thesis is that it is delightful to create composite programs based on an orthogonal kernel written in a low-level language together with a powerful, high-level extension language.