Could Bill Gates write code?

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Post by hhm » Tue, Dec 11, 2007, 5:55 PM UTC

Could Bill Gates write code?
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Re: Could Bill Gates write code?

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Post by ivankirigin » Tue, Dec 11, 2007, 6:11 PM UTC

I've heard anecdotes from Microsoft of some new employees challenging Bill on some obscure tech, only to be out done.

Re: Could Bill Gates write code?

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Post by henning » Tue, Dec 11, 2007, 6:17 PM UTC

He's very good at acting like he's isolated and far away from the code - he puts his hands together and talks using the typical pundit bullshit phrases: "what we're seeing more and more is a shift towards...".

It's all an act, like the President pretending he's a Texas cowboy when he went to Harvard and Yale.

Re: Could Bill Gates write code?

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Post by DarrenStuart » Tue, Dec 11, 2007, 6:31 PM UTC

Seems like the wildwest of coding back then. I love reading this stuff. If you are into the history of computing check out Steven Levy's books, http://www.stevenlevy.com/ I have read hackers and crypto and they were decent reads.

Re: Could Bill Gates write code?

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Post by raheemm » Tue, Dec 11, 2007, 11:52 PM UTC

That does not prove BG wrote the code - perhaps Allen wrote those "brilliant" parts. Did they comment out which parts each one wrote?

Re: Could Bill Gates write code?

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Post by eusman » Wed, Dec 12, 2007, 12:20 AM UTC

raheemm wrote: post #5

That does not prove BG wrote the code - perhaps Allen wrote those "brilliant" parts. Did they comment out which parts each one wrote?

The code for the program was left mostly up to Bill Gates while Paul Allen began working on a way to simulate the Altair with the schools PDP-10

Re: Could Bill Gates write code?

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Post by lowfat » Wed, Dec 12, 2007, 3:09 PM UTC

Yeah - if he is such a great coder - why does his software suck?