The "1" was dropped after version 1.12 as it was thought that the major number would never change, and thus the major version skipped from "1" to "13". Early versions of GNU Emacs were numbered as "1.x.x," with the initial digit denoting the version of the C core. The first widely distributed version of GNU Emacs was version 15.34, released later in 1985. Version 13, the first public release, was made on March 20, 1985. GNU Emacs is written in C and provides Emacs Lisp, also implemented in C, as an extension language. This became the first program released by the nascent GNU Project. GNU Emacs was initially based on Gosling Emacs, but Stallman's replacement of its Mocklisp interpreter with a true Lisp interpreter required that nearly all of its code be rewritten. In 1976, Stallman wrote the first Emacs (“Editor MACroS”), and in 1984, began work on GNU Emacs, to produce a free software alternative to the proprietary Gosling Emacs. Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and author of GNU Emacs
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