[DonHopkins]

James Gosling published "A Redisplay Algorithm" [1] in Proceedings of the 1981 ACM SIGPLAN SIGOA symposium on Text manipulation, describing the Emacs redisplay algorithm (the code with the skull and crossbones [2] that Stallman rewrote [3]).

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=806463

[2] http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/emacs/skull-and-crossbone...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3427495