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Posted in Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, Interview at 5:10 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Dr. Richard Stallman, the Free Software Foundation’s founder, explains what programs he developed in the eighties
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> Roy: Which was the first GNU project or GNU program, officially?
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> RMS: The first one to be released, you mean?
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> Roy: Yeah.
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> RMS: I believe it was GNU Emacs. There were other programs written before then but they weren’t really worth distributing. For instance, I wrote rm and ls and cp, but I didn’t
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> see that anyone would care about them by themselves. So I didn’t release them. Those were ways I got used to writing programs to run on UNIX and thus to be part of the system like UNIX. The first GNU program I worked on was Bison. Now, I didn’t start from zero. Bison was basically running but it didn’t have many of the features that Yacc had and for it to really do its job as a replacement for Yacc it needed
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> all those features. So I added those features, and some more. And I did that first because I wanted to use it to write the C front-end for our compiler.
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