Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

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Scott probably knows but maybe does not, is that Bill Gates wrote the
first Basic compiler/interpreter for Microsoft in 2,000 bytes of 8080
assembly language.  It actually ran on the Altair 8800 with 4,000 bytes
of ram.  I would call Gates an elite programmer.

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As someone who had to fix MBASIC for the HP2101 when Gates admitted
that the product was broken but that they weren't selling enough of
that version for them to fix it, I would not call him either an elite
programmer or a good customer service guy either.
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I can't speak about Zuckerberg as I never had to fix his code.
--scott
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