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And X is also Emacs [1] and Andrew [2] in Gosling's case. ;-)

For Tim Bray, X is short for XML.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs

[2] https://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2009/November/nov5_goslingr...



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