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Subject: Re: You just disproved your own point.

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 08:21:04 02/19/04

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On February 18, 2004 at 10:22:43, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>Another nice example is Emacs. A lot of it is LISP, but the core is C, for
>performance reasons.

It is not quite that simple.  Most of the Lisp-all-the-way variants of Emacs,
like Fred and the LispWorks editor, feel faster than GNU Emacs.  But you are
right that an editor written in 100% Emacs Lisp would probably be very slow.

Tord



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