Re: How old are Emacs users?

[The Chief Instigator]

30ish emacs user <kalap.kabat@freemail.hu> writes:

>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 started using it at 34 (getting Internet access at rice.edu), and have been
using it ever since.  (I'll be 52 next month.)

-- 
   Patrick "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick@io.com)  Houston, Texas  
    chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php  (TCI's 2006-07 Houston Aeros) AA#2273
                LAST GAME: San Antonio 4, Houston 2 (April 15)
               NEXT GAME: October 2007, date/place/opponent TBA