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From: bbc@rice.edu (Benjamin Chase)
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Subject: Re: The powerlessness of Lisp
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Date: 25 Mar 91 17:58:27 GMT
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In-Reply-To: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu's message of 25 Mar 91 15:41:56 GMT

brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

>Other points: GNU Emacs *is* written in C, with only a small amount of
>``helper'' code to implement dynamic typing.

"GNU Emacs" is roughly 1/2 C and 1/2 elisp.

Or did you mean just that file of machine code that gets run when you
start gnu emacs?  No, even that small part of GNU Emacs wasn't derived
solely from C.

Get some facts, Dan.
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	Ben Chase <bbc@rice.edu>, Rice University, Houston, Texas