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On 31 May 2011, James Hawtin spake thusly:

> Phase 1, tightly written program does exactly what it says on the tin really quickly.
> Phase 2, configuration file, a configuration is added to the system allow the program to be tweek to make it more useful and cope
> with special cases.
> Phase 3, programming language, program engine is now so generic that a program has to be written in this custom language to cope
> with the simple cases in phase one.

In Emacs's case, these must have been done in previous systems. It
started in phase 3 (or phase 2 if you won't dignify TECO with the term
'programming language'). Of course, because it's a Lisp system, perhaps
it simply started as a small ball of mud, and accreted until it became a
big one.

> As machines increase in power the number of layers of virtual machines
> will increase to reduce the speed to the existing level.

I'm running five right now. I agree. :)))

(but I'm doing most of my work outside all VMs.)

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