Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Richard Stallman]

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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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