Could Emacs be rewritten in Python?

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Christian Tanzer wrote:
> If you want to implement something comparable
> to Emacs' power, you'd better look at the Elisp Reference Manual for
> quite a while.

That's one way of looking at it. Arguably, however, it
might be better *not* to study the Elisp Reference Manual
too closely, so as not to pollute your mind with all
those crufty hacks and jeopardise your chances of
coming up with a better overall design. A sort of
conceptual clean-room approach.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg