Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Richard Stallman]

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  > That is, it might be a good idea to move some parts of Emacs core (which
  > are not system-dependent or performance-critical, e.g., parts of
  > interactive behavior like `self-insert-command' might fit here) from
  > C to Elisp.  We would gain at least two (connected) important things
  > this way:

In days long ago,
When clocks were so slow,
These basic keystrokes
Took too long for folks,
Unless they were writ
In C code to flit.
Today that's not so,
In Lisp they can go.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
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