Re: I'm still here

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From: Jim.Rees
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 21:26

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In article <CTHOMP.94Apr15103523@hal.cs.uiuc.edu>, cthomp@hal.cs.uiuc.edu (Chuck Thompson) writes:

      Jim> I won't be moving to lucid, because they made the unfortunate
      Jim> choice of switching from C to a different source language.
  
  Where did you ever get that idea?  Lucid Emacs (which is as close as
  there comes to an "official" successor to Epoch) is written in the
  same mix of languages that FSF 18, FSF 19, and Epoch are:  C and Emacs
  Lisp.  It has never been any other way.

I'm afraid you're mistaken.  The lemacs README file, available at
ftp://lucid.com/pub/lemacs/README, says, "Note that building Lucid Emacs
requires an ANSI C compiler, like gcc, or Lucid's own (and the galaxy's
best) Lucid C/C++."  I've verified this by trying to build it with a K&R C
compiler.  Gnu emacs 19 and all its ancestors are written in K&R C.

The reason I say this is unfortunate is that ansi C is much less portable
than K&R C (which I just call "C" to avoid confusion).

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