From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: 30 Apr 2007 03:00:31 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1177927231.508493.179300@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177929580 13249 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2007 10:39:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:39:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 30 12:39:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HiTHz-0007Dz-Tl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:39:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiTO9-0003O3-SH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:45:50 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1177927232 6005 127.0.0.1 (30 Apr 2007 10:00:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:00:32 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF3ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.210; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147791 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43394 Archived-At: On Apr 24, 6:07 am, 30ish emacs user wrote: > 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'm 28, I've used Emacs for ~8 years. The age distribution seems to be interestingly even, many people from almost every decade of adult life. I would have thought that there would be two sets of people: Young people who discovered Emacs via the web and Linux/GNU recently and a older generation that discovered it installed on *nix machines at their work or university. But it seems not, if the thread is representative then a steady stream of people have been introduced to it for a long time.