Re: How old are Emacs users?

[Anders Wirzenius]

Martin Fischer <nospam@nospam.net> writes:

>   >>>>> 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.
>   > 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Martin
> -- 

56.
Emacs user since 10 years. With MS Windows at work and Linuxes at
home Emacs is friendly and familiar "day and night".
I used VAX/VMS/EDT extensively in 1980's and experience similar
possibilities to build up your own context now with Emacs.

Emacs has an excellent Ada mode.

-- 
Anders Wirzenius