Re: Emacs, was Re: YAPAS (Yet Another Python Advocacy Story) (fwd)

[Nicolai Rosen <nick@netaxs.com>]

I don't really think that that's a fair measure. The higher up features
that rarely get used are exclusively Lisp while a lot more of the lower
level stuff is C.

Besides, emacs is still not Word. I'd like to see somebody do a word like
program in a scripted language (hehe, here's where I invite people to
contradict me).

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Adam Turoff wrote:
> Forwarded message:
> > 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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