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Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language |
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Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:00:00 -0400 |
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I don't think we should rewrite Emacs into anything other than C.
It would not be an improvement.
Some parts of the Emacs C code could use rewriting -- for instance,
the parts that deal with management of X windows. But there is no need
to change to a different language.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Óscar Fuentes, 2015/10/12
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- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, David Kastrup, 2015/10/12
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