Re: How old are Emacs users?

[Martin Fischer]

  >>>>> 30ish emacs user writes:
  > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:07:18 +0000 (UTC)
  > 
  > 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. :)

Hi,

I'm nearly 57, using emacs since 16 years. After leaving VAX/VMS/LSE I
encounterd emacs, when I started working in a large, nearly collapsing
software project. It didn't fail in the end, which had a lot to do
with the use of free software like emacs, gcc, gdb, cygwin.

Since then I've been using some other environments including Borland
and Microsoft IDEs as well as Eclipse on Unix Windows and GNU/Linux
systems but nothing stopped me using the most flexible editor emacs.

Cheers

Martin
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