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by abjKT26nO8 2175 days ago
The original Emacs was written for Multics at a time when people outside of Bell Labs were largely unaware of the existence of Unix[1]. It also doesn't follow the Unix philosophy of making small CLI utilities composed with pipes. As I understand it (though I haven't used it), Acme is extended with external programs which communicate through pipes just like the traditional Unix utilities.

[1]: https://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html

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The first version of Emacs was not made in lisp, instead it used TECO, a horrible programming editor/programming language.