Could Bill Gates write code?(theregister.co.uk)

10 pointsby hhm19년 전6 comments

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/15/could_bill_gates_write_code/

6 comments

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

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.

raheemm19년 전

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

eusman19년 전

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

lowfat19년 전

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

henning19년 전

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.