Re: Vim project helps in Uganda, Emacs shall be next

[Emanuel Berg]

>>> The Emacs-Vim $EDITOR war... that was ages ago
>>
>> I have no idea about the war, but where there are wars
>> there are veterans
>
> There are and let's pray it stays that way for many years to
> come...

In the US armed forces it holds that

  [a] veteran is a former member of the Armed Forces ... who
  served on active duty and was discharged under conditions,
  which were other than dishonorable [1]

That means there are 20 year old US Air force veterans!

My own definition of being a veteran with respect to
technology is that you are a veteran after using it actively
for 10 years. "Actively" here means with an eye to the
technology itself, so technology for its own sake, in part.
E.g. just browsing the web and watching Star Trek with mpv's
default settings on Ubuntu, that doesn't make you anything,
well a Trekker/Trekkie perhaps, but not a Linux veteran with
respect to the technology no matter how long you do it.

This definition IMO holds for a lot of things. Doing
martial arts from age 20 to 30 most definitely makes you
a veteran, repairing bikes for a decade and you are a pro
(often you are as good or better than the actuals
professionals by then) ... and after 10 years, you should even
understand your own wife pretty well, ey?

So yes, a lot of people are Unix and Emacs veterans by now!
Does that feel good? I don't know actually... well, yes!
why not? :)

[1] http://equity.psu.edu/veterans/criteria

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