RE: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving?

[Drew Adams]

> > > > trust Emacs to be active and improving by 2018?
> >
> > > Emacs was written in 1985, so it will be 30 years old soon.  I
> > > think it can go on another 30 years :-)
> >
> > It's really more like 40 years that people have been using Emacs.
> > GNU Emacs will be 30 in two more years (soon, but not that soon).
> 
> Yes, yes.  Not good.  I was thinking of GNU Emacs but didn't say it.

No, no.  Good!  Your point was that Emacs has been around a long
time and will likely be around for a long time to come.  Thank you
for saying it, Kai.  What I wrote just nitpicked to add a few details.