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Another example: Vernor Vinge (sci fi author, and a former math and CS professor at San Diego State) uses emacs [http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview...]


Yet another example would be Neal Stephenson:

"I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor."

- In the Beginning was the Command Line http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html


That was written before his conversion to Mac OS X.

We don't know if it still applies.




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