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		luriel on Sept 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Tour of the Acme Editor If you read the acme[1] paper you will see Rob Pike explicitly acknowledges the influence of Oberon. This can be seen even more clearly in Acme's more direrect predecessor: help[2] [1]: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/ [2]: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/help/

gruseom on Sept 17, 2012 [–]

Thank you. I didn't know there was a direct influence. It's intriguing, because the two cultures share a similar design style: "aggressive use of a small number of abstractions" as Ken Thompson put it. I like that design style.

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