Could Emacs be rewritten in Python?

[Anders J. Munch]

"Christian Tanzer" <tanzer at swing.co.at> wrote:
> Carl Banks <imbosol-1049990205 at aerojockey.com> wrote:
> > I think dynamic scpoing is a wholly bad idea, and simplifying a very
> > misguided programming practice doesn't make it any less so.
> 
> You are of course right. Surprisingly though, it works very well for
> Emacs. Passing arguments would *not* work in the context of Emacs.
> 

What makes you say that?  Why wouldn't lexical scoping supplemented by
a temporary-global-binding construct work just as well or better?

- Anders