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On 10/30/2024 6:55 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:Don't worry Lynn, next time he calls, you know what to say! ;)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 aI would call him a competent assembler programmer, which
professional programmer, to make a statement like that is incredibly
unprofessional in my opinion.
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.
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.
Mark Zuckerberg was the only programmer for Facebook for several years.I would call him a founder and businesman. Did he write the
He got Facebook up and going by himself before hiring any employees. I
would call Zuckerberg an elite programmer.
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.
I could name dozens of other elite programmers. Thompson, Ritchie,Sure. I don't put Bill Gates in that camp.
Kernighan, Carmack, etc. So could Scott.
"My First BillG Review" by Joel Spolsky
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/
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Disclosure: I turned down a job offer at Microsoft in 1987. One of my many mistakes in life.
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Lynn
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