Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?"

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.2321.1375374479.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

>   It is a logical impossibility to make a language more powerful by omitting
>   features, no matter how bad they may be....

While it may not make it "more powerful", it may make it more likely to 
produce correct programs.

For instance, by removing features related to pointers, you can get a 
language that makes buffer overflows very unlikely.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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