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Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)

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Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)

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Decently surprising list, at least for me. I think the Torvalds-Stallman relationship got more complicated in my head.

To be fair, Linus uses uemacs. He says "real" emacs is the tool of the devil ;-)

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LinusTorvalds/posts/iySKQGtkmtb

Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)

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I find it strange that Daniel Weinreb, Guy Steele and Richard Stallman are on this list. Steele co-wrote ?macs with David Moon and John Kulp. Dan Weinreb was a beta tester on ?macs before Stallman joined the project, and he would later become the first one to write an Emacs in a lisp (EINE). Stallman, of course, created GNU Emacs. Putting them on a list with Assange and Zuckerberg is ridiculous.
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