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Maybe someone wants to try this 'downgrade' this weekend ;-)
Open Source Software & Usability: A brief history of visual interfaces
(opensource-usability.blogspot.co.uk)
MPW is an IDE/editor/shell for the classic (pre-Unix) Mac OS. It's interesting for its somewhat unusual text-based interface. The closest comparison to it would be to Acme or Oberon.
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
(james-iry.blogspot.com)
> The following messages, from the Lucid Emacs mailing lists in 1992 and 1993, comprise the bulk (if not the entirety) of the public discussions between the Lucid and FSF camps on why the split happened and why a merger never did.
Prompted by [this Twitter tread](https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/863742251331137537) by @pookleblinky, which is more-or-less a tl;dr of the linked article. Another neat observation in that thread is that the Symbolics keyboard has a pair of parentheses that you can type shiftlessly, which is...