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William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

>   Well, I would rephrase this to be 'zero overhead for a user of the
> originating language version'.  If lars all of a sudden decides to only
> speak french (even in lisp), then so be it. :)

I'd say English.  The programmer responsible for maintaining a
consistent Emacs distribution should not have to be multi-lingual. 

[ Ignoring Gosling's original redisplay code, which were reputed to be
  written in a mix of Latin and Welsh. ]