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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by daveloyall on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @05:17PM (#12355318)
...That's what I said.
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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by daveloyall on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @05:38PM (#12355449)
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...

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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by lispm on Thursday August 25, 2016 @08:03AM (#12358352)
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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