Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!ucsbcsl!vision!nosmo From: nosmo@vision.ucsb.edu (Vincent Brooke Kraemer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: Lisp vs. Scheme Emacs Summary: What about the obvious answer Message-ID: <1020@hub.ucsb.edu> Date: 3 Dec 88 01:05:58 GMT References: <237@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Sender: news@hub.ucsb.edu Reply-To: nosmo@vision.UUCP (Vincent Brooke Kraemer) Distribution: na Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara Lines: 10 Forgive my stupidity on this answer - but wasn't EMACS originally written in Lisp, like way way back. (i.e. before we were scheme'ing) I am sure that you can write an EMACS in just about any language you want - but do you really want to ignore a considerable amount of work that has already been tried and worked. The decision was probably made more on the basis of intelligent software engineering practice than religious beliefs. Or at least I would hope so. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I only .sig in "soc." groups - real news doesn't need it.