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A comment on Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packages, and a Full Refactor. Parent comment

Re:Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packag... by jimbokun on Monday March 09, 2026 @11:55PM (#47318947)
But if you were implementing it in 1976 you would have.
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Re:Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packag... by pkal on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @02:36AM (#47319752)
But in 1976 Emacs was implemented in TECO. In 1984 it was implemented in Lisp, because Multics Emacs _or_ EINE/ZWEI (Lisp Machine editors) were using Lisp as an extension language, which apparently has shown itself to be useful.
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