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

On 10/30/2024 6:55 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

On 10/30/2024 5:29 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 10/30/24 14:12, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 10/30/2024 3:54 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

On 10/30/2024 4:39 AM, D wrote:

 

You are an end user, do and say whatever you want.  Scott is / was a
professional programmer, to make a statement like that is incredibly
unprofessional in my opinion.
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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.

 I would call him a competent assembler programmer, which
weren't uncommon in those days of limited memory.  Lots of
PDP-8 code, for example needed to fit in 4096 words of
memory.  Including fortran compilers, basic interpreters
and a wide range of other software.
 

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Mark Zuckerberg was the only programmer for Facebook for several years.
He got Facebook up and going by himself before hiring any employees.  I
would call Zuckerberg an elite programmer.

 I would call him a founder and businesman.  Did he write the
web server that facebook (and myspace at the time) was using?
No, they leveraged opensource software.  And he hired a bunch
of programmers once things ramped up.  I met with both facebook
and myspace engineering teams in the mid 2000's specifically
to discuss high-end servers.
 

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I could name dozens of other elite programmers.  Thompson, Ritchie,
Kernighan, Carmack, etc.  So could Scott.

 Sure.  I don't put Bill Gates in that camp.

"My First BillG Review" by Joel Spolsky
    https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/
Disclosure: I turned down a job offer at Microsoft in 1987.  One of my many mistakes in life.
Lynn