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Re: How old are Emacs users?


From: Rainer Stengele
Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users?
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:56:26 +0200
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30ish emacs user wrote:
> I'm wondering which age group most Emacs users fall into? How old are
> you? I'm 32.
> 
> I suppose most of the youngest generation were exposed to some kind of
> graphical editor like Visual Studio or Eclipse and they find Emacs
> alien (those who don't understand...) after using the former.
> 
> The older generations were more probable to be exposed to vim or emacs
> first and they "stuck" with it (know the advantages), not migrating to
> graphical editor land.
> 
> That's only an assumption and I'd like to verify it. Would you please
> post your age if you're interested? The statistics could be
> interesting. :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
long time vim user, still so over ssh, now started to dive into
EmacsW32 with growing excitement, learning lisp in parallel.
My colleague (18-generation "windows") is very hard to convince ...
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