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From: jem@hpisod2.HP.COM (Jim McCauley)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Why Lisp? (Was:  Re: Remember how great editors used to be?)
Message-ID: <13920007@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 90 16:52:15 GMT
References: <1990May30.052145.15392@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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At 11:35 am  May 30, 1990, pierson@encore.com (Dan L. Pierson) wrote:

> But, just for the fun of it, think of an Emacs based on Perl instead
> of Lisp...

This is only a moderately terrible idea.  If it led to the practice of
Un*x users consistently using an editor as their shell, it couldn't be
entirely bad.  The members of my documentation team are nearly all ksh
users, perdominantly due to the interactive command-line editing feature.

Jim McCauley          jem@hpulpcu3.hp.com       (408) 447-4993
Learning Products Engineer
Hewlett Packard Company, General Systems Division
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