GOSMACS /goz'maks/ n.
[contraction of `Gosling EMACS'] The first EMACS-in-C implementation, predating but now
largely eclipsed by GNUMACS.
Originally freeware; a commercial version was modestly popular as
`UniPress EMACS' during the 1980s. The author, James Gosling,
went on to invent NeWS and the
programming language Java; the latter earned him demigod status.
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Gosperism /gos'p*r-izm/ n.
A hack, invention, or saying due to elder days arch-hacker R. William (Bill)
Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many
of them. Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms; see also life.