What If Python Replaced Elisp?

[Kragen Sitaker]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.10.10003102317130.4723-100000 at sundial>,
Moshe Zadka  <mzadka at geocities.com> wrote:
>Yes, but that argument wouldn't hold water: NeWS was such a system. The
>only reason that it didn't kick X11's butt was that Sun was making the
>same mistakes it makes today with Java while the good boys at MIT were
>throwing out reference implementations to the public domain.

I thought I heard X11 was more efficient than NeWS.  I've used NeWS
only once (on a Sparc ELC) and it seemed snappy enough; did I hear
wrong?
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