From: Richard Stallman
To: emacs-devel
Subject: Re: Efforts to attract more users?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:36:48 -0400

C++ is a badly designed and ugly language.  It would be a shame to use it in Emacs.The reason the GCC developers wanted to use it is for destructorsand generics.  These aren't much use in Emacs, which has GC and inwhich data types are handled at the Lisp level