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From: nate@cpocd2.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: GNU security, size
Message-ID: <966@cpocd2.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 16:51:27 EST
Article-I.D.: cpocd2.966
Posted: Wed Nov  4 16:51:27 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 09:09:09 EST
References: <7399@alice.UUCP> <278@gethen.UUCP>
Reply-To: nate@cpocd2.UUCP (Nathan Hess)
Organization: Intel Corp., ASIC Services Operation, Chandler AZ
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Keywords: GNU security, size

In article <278@gethen.UUCP> farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) writes:
>GNU Emacs is a wonderful thing, especially considering the manner in which
>it has been written and distributed.  Thanks are due to RMS for having
>done it at all, but I sure do wish that he'd done it more compactly.

I'm curious.  How much smaller do you think GNU Emacs could be and still
have the functionality and expandability that it currently has?  In
other words, if RMS were to start over from scratch with Emacs, do you
think he (or anyone else, for that matter) would be able to make either
the sources or the executable be significantly smaller?

My guess is no.

--woodstock
-- 
	   "How did you get your mind to tilt like your hat?"

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