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Added: 9a10,16

* Brian Kernighan, of K&R and K&P fame, the ‘K’ in awk, and much more; uses sam
* Doug McIlroy?, inventor of UNIX pipes, uses sam
* Tom Duff (of Duff’s Device and Star Wars' Death Star fame), uses sam
* Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++, uses sam
* Dennis Ritchie, creator of UNIX, used ed and ACME
* Russ Cox, worked on Plan 9 and golang, uses ACME
* RobPike, creator of jim, sam, and ACME, uses ACME (obviously)

Added: 11a19,20

: sam users taken from http://sam.cat-v.org/
: ACME users taken from http://acme.cat-v.org/

These are folks you may have heard of...

SteveGibson uses Brief (apparently in a Virtual DosBox?) (reference here: http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-200.htm )
RichardStallman uses GnuEmacs (well, he *wrote* it...)
Ken Thompson, creator of Unix, uses sam
Linus Torvalds uses MicroEmacs
JamieZawinski, famous Mozilla programmer, uses XEmacs
Donald Knuth uses GnuEmacs
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia?, uses WordPad
Brian Kernighan, of K&R and K&P fame, the ‘K’ in awk, and much more; uses sam
Doug McIlroy?, inventor of UNIX pipes, uses sam
Tom Duff (of Duff’s Device and Star Wars' Death Star fame), uses sam
Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++, uses sam
Dennis Ritchie, creator of UNIX, used ed and ACME
Russ Cox, worked on Plan 9 and golang, uses ACME
RobPike, creator of jim, sam, and ACME, uses ACME (obviously)

: If available, please include sources for the above references.
: sam users taken from http://sam.cat-v.org/
: ACME users taken from http://acme.cat-v.org/

How about the character in these movies?

Trinity in "The Matrix"
kids in "Wargames"
kids in "Hackers"
Guy in "Swordfish"

Any luck?