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daveloyall on Aug 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dinosaur and Lisp

I guess the self deprecation wasn't appreciated! (I'm a devout emacs user, you know..)

Would you accept that temacs[0] is written in C and emacs is written in emacs lisp?

I'd argue that sbcl is written in C and the sbcl common lisp implementation is written in common lisp.

Is that not the common way of viewing it?

0: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Bu...

lispm on Aug 25, 2016 [–]

temacs is just an intermediate build step, while building GNU Emacs. There is no working GNU Emacs without the C and the Elisp code.

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