Indeed. Starting using Emacs in '97 when I was still in school, but the mix of editor and programmable lisp environment changed the way I thought about computi

Indeed. Starting using Emacs in '97 when I was still in school, but the mix of editor and programmable lisp environment changed the way I thought about computing (coming from Pascal/Java). Emacs made it so easy for me to implement small improvements to my work environment, so it allowed my curiosity to overpower my fear of breaking things, and that changed the way I thought about computing in general.