Not exactly correct. Rather, RMS resisted attempts to make the compiler more modular based on such arguments, but the initial design wasn't deliberately non-mo

Not exactly correct. Rather, RMS resisted attempts to make the compiler more modular based on such arguments, but the initial design wasn't deliberately non-modular. The steering committee had to spend years persuading him not to block improvements that increased modularity, like plugins, and eventually found ways to persuade him.