Comment by rbanffy
15 years ago
> My opinion of Emacs being obsolete is one which I got from reading James Gosling, the author of the first Emacs that ran on Unix.
Mind you he wrote an Emacs in C, complete with a faux-lisp interpreter. That more or less precludes him from being an expert in Emacs.
Keep also in mind he gave Java to the world, some would argue, well after it was obsolete (some people will sustain that Smalltalk 80 made Java obsolete in the early 80's, a full decade before its launch)
Writing Emacs, be it in C or whatever, is hardly a reason to not call Gosling an expert in Emacs, quite the contrary! But you might argue his approach to Emacs is not idiomatic or not consistent with the community and so on, if there is evidence for that.