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by s0l1dsnak3123 1085 days ago
I didn't know that, what an interesting detail!
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comfypotato 1085 days ago
My source is an Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua, and the guest mentioned that they heard it from the developer of Ruby.

So the source here is a tad removed, but it sounded right to me!

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s0l1dsnak3123 1085 days ago
It seems like Matz was the one who wrote the original ruby-mode! http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/Matz_Ruby_how_emacs_changed_m...

Additionally, from the same article:

> so, Matz's remark that he learned/created Ruby from reading emacs source code is genuine.

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