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Emacs, was Re: YAPAS (Yet Another Python Advocacy Story) (fwd)
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> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 21:09:30 -0500 (EST)
> From: rspier@seas.upenn.edu (Robert Spier)
> To: phl@lists.pm.org
> Subject: Emacs, was Re: YAPAS (Yet Another Python Advocacy Story)
>
> >>>>> "NR" == Nicolai Rosen <nick@netaxs.com> writes:
> NR> In context he was implying a Word type word processor. Are you
> NR> talking about emacs? I thought it was written in C w/ a lot of
> NR> configuration and scripts and whatnot done in Lisp?
>
> Emacs is essentially a lisp interpreter. Some of the high-frequency
> functions and basic buffer manipulation is done in C.
>
> C and Header
> 258965 lines 7484242 bytes
>
> Lisp
> 490238 lines 17970670 bytes
>
> Thats from the root directory of GNU emacs-20.6
>
> A little eyeballing, and 2/3 of emacs (by line) is LISP. It's even
> more by bytes.
>
> $emacs++;
>
> -R
>
>
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