35 years in my case, thanks to Jean-Jacques Lévy of INRIA. But Emacs was started by James Gosling, not Stallman.
That's simply not true. Gosling wrote a commercial implementation, but Steele and Stallman wrote the first versions of Emacs.
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That's simply not true. Gosling wrote a commercial implementation, but Steele and Stallman wrote the first versions of Emacs.