From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: The Chief Instigator Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: 24 Apr 2007 01:23:50 -0500 Organization: Illuminati Online Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177396496 2374 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2007 06:34:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:34:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 24 08:34:55 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 1HgEc2-0006y4-QQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:34:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgEhW-000866-ED for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:40:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.io.com!news.io.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:23:50 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.198.128.88 Original-X-Trace: sv3-32pAufQwFzqogvIc7+fwiTbfW73H5VY30L/wwaEjEwe6dKXWh2bo3ILQs+uppdnbZKsTtXGTZ4darJ/!dbPGCXJXE0kwGSryK5emOFZgsmwg5JT6s8+aAsERJgOaa68zcbWYqU/n22pu Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@io.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@io.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147439 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:43043 Archived-At: 30ish emacs user 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