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Why not modernize Emacs

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Raj Divecha <rjd1977tech <at> icloud.com>
Cc: 74488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eliz <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#74488: Why not modernize Emacs
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:52:30 -0500

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We don't seek to make Emacs "modern" in the sense changing things to
follow changing fashions.  For instance, Lisp still has the advantages
it always had.  Even if somene offered to rewrite all our existing
Lisp code into Python, we still prefer Lisp.


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