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PausesPausesPosted Jun 19, 2010 21:33 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: Pauses by ncm Parent article: The Managed Runtime Initiative
> ... because the editor is written in what you think is a cool language.
Please be serious: how emacs is made internally has nothing to do with why most people choose to use it. Most emacs users do not even know what LISP is (or even worse; they hate it as configuration file syntax), and they could not care less about a 2 seconds delay per week.
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Pauses Posted Jun 20, 2010 21:05 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Actually I *did* start using Emacs because of the runtime configurability and extensibility (and learnt Lisp as a result and fell in love with it), but I know I'm weird.
Its implementation language, of course, is partly ugly old Lisp and partly really rather nasty C (GCPRO, anyone?). The less that's in C and the more that's in Lisp, the better, as far as I'm concerned, but not because of the language -- more because, if it's in C, I can hack at it interactively, whenever I need to. :)
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