> If Emacs is nearly an operating system then it's kind of nearly a software Lisp machine. This is not an accident. GNU Emacs was probably intended to be the

> If Emacs is nearly an operating system then it's kind of nearly a software Lisp machine. This is not an accident. GNU Emacs was probably intended to be the first step towards a complete lisp system for GNU, akin to zmacs on symbolics. The free software manifesto mentions lisp several times http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html