Could Emacs be rewritten in Python?

[Lothar Scholz]

Alexander Schmolck <a.schmolck at gmx.net> wrote in message news:<yfsn0j3kot2.fsf at black132.ex.ac.uk>...
> llothar at web.de (Lothar Scholz) writes:

> > To make clear, i'm using XEMACS 8 hours a day for years now. But it's
> > absolutely losing ground compared to modern editors. And i don't think
> > that
> > extensibility in the emacs sense is really necessary today or a plus,
> > because
> > people want out of the box solutions that are specialized to their
> > domain.
> 
> The plausibility of your suggestion that the majority of emacs's long time
> user base is formed by mindless drones depresses me.

I never said something like this. Its just the observation that nearly
all of the hard core Emacs users i meet have never done more then
adding simple key bindings to there .emacs file.

I have learned elisp 8 years ago and tried to add some features to the
Eiffel mode. And it was pure hell, even with experience in Common
Lisp.