Re: How old are Emacs users?

[hemant]

On 4/24/07, William Case <billlinux@rogers.com> wrote:
> Hi;
>
> On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 05:07 +0000, 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. :)
> >
> I am 63.  The kids have moved out, my wife has passed away.  I was no
> longer getting enough confusion, frustration, anger and disappointment
> in my life so 2 years I started using emacs.  It has filled the bill
> superbly.
>
> --
> Regards Bill

I am 23 and using Emacs since last 5 years. Yet learning.

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