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The following is an April fool mail received from RMS, but wasn't acutally sent by him, which he found it as funny.
From: Richard Stallman Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:53:20 -0500 Subject: emacs rewrite After more than 30 years I think it's time to rewrite emacs from scratch. I would be happy to hear your suggestions about the best language to use. At the moment I think that Perl would be the best fit, because of its acronym: Perfect emacs rewriting language.
From: Richard Stallman Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:08:17 -0400 Subject: Re: emacs rewrite Someone wrote an April Fool and put my name on it. It was funny.
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