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

[Stefan Monnier]

> Think of registers and interrupts disappearing from assembly to C, making
> C better than assembly in 95% use-cases.  Now if you were an assembly
> programmer, you would pooh-pooh a C (like) language: "How can having less
> make it a better language?"

It goes even further back: assembly is better than raw machine code
because it doesn't let you see the raw byte encoding of your
instructions (which prevents you from jumping in the middle of an
instruction, even though that can be useful when trying to shave off
a few bytes).


        Stefan