Re: Is Elisp really that slow?

[Emanuel Berg]

Drew Adams wrote:

>>>> Not much we can do about that. Feel free
>>>> to lobby distros to include Emacs. IMO, if
>>>> something is related to 40-year old
>>>> decision, it is this one.
>>>
>>> Yes. Unix distributions did usually include
>>> both vi and Emacs. Why wouldn't GNU/Linux
>>> distributions include both?
>> 
>> What's the "40-year old decision"?
>
> That was Eli who spoke about such a decision.
> Presumably he meant a decision, or decisions,
> by those in charge of GNU/Linux distributions
> not to include Emacs.

Yes, but what decision was that? In 1979?

$ echo $(( 2019 - 40 ))
1979

But GNU is from 1983, and Linux from 1991. [1]


[1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/COMP-HIST

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