Re: Another iteration on the Emacs website

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Random832 <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:14:18 -0500
> 
> Xue Fuqiao <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Gregor Zattler <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> [2] The only other projects of similar age which come to
> >>     (my) mind are the X Window System and the TeX familiy of
> >>     programs.
> >
> > Maybe you forgot some GNU projects, like Hurd, glibc, Bash, GCC, GDB,
> > Octave, and Texinfo.
> 
> Depends on what you mean by similar age.
> 
> 1978 TeX
> 1983 AMS-TeX
> 1984 X
> 1984 Emacs
> 1985 LaTeX
> 1986 GDB
> 1987 GCC
> 1988 glibc
> 1989 Bash
> 1990 Hurd
> 1992 Octave ("conceived" 1988)

Emacs started the GNU project, so it's a small wonder it predates any
other GNU package.  Also, first versions of GCC and GDB were written
by Richard, which is another reason why they came after Emacs.