🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <BBC.91Mar25115827@libya.rice.edu> Benjamin Chase <bbc@rice.edu> writes:
> 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.

Yes, that is the GNU Emacs program, and I never said anything about what
it was ``derived from.'' It is written in C, and any C programmer who
wants to make use of dynamic typing can get away with a similarly tiny
amount of helper code. No amount of crap about ``sole derivations'' or
``it's written in Lisp, really!'' will change this fact.

What are you trying to do? Make a religious point, or get work done? I'm
sure RMS didn't care about how impossible polymorphic lists are in C
when he was working on Emacs.

> Get some facts, Dan.

Sheesh. At least I've had the sheer joy of compiling Emacs on a couple
of unsupported systems, one of which can't handle undumping. I'm not an
Emacs expert, but you can assume that I know what language a program is
written in when I've worked with the code of that program.

---Dan