Scary stuff. Actually, more in the "gosh, that is a
surprise!" department. But, nonetheless, enough to make
oneself take a step back and ponder.
Yesterday, there was some enthusing over the Asus Eee in my
(virtual) vincinity an dI flippantly said "can it run
emacs?" and a short while realised that it's around 20
years since I first used emacs. That's an editor I've used
for more than half of my life (and now, 15 years later, M-:
for an eval prompt feels natural, but when it changed
mid-90s, i tfelt very, very strange).
Curiously, I've actually coded in lisp longer than I've
used emacs (and emacsoids), but only by a year or so and
the first few years, what I had at hand was XLisp 1.2, not
the most Common of lisps around (it's essentially a lisp-1,
rather than a lisp-2 and it has its own bizarre object
system that I never, ever, understood, even after having
perused the interpreter's source).
It's slightly scary, though, having the thought "I've used
emacs for more than half my life".