I read a book called I think Barbarians working for Bill Gates or some such.
The programmer was trying to optimize the code for some graphic filll
routine in MSDOS and he kept trying to figure out who wrote the abomidiable
code. He finally found out Bill Gates did.
Jim
"Daniel A. Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
news:3C46E2C4.240F105D_at_exesolutions.com...
> It sure wasn't for his ability to write usable code.
>
> Daniel Morgan
> Redmond, WA
>
>
> Sybrand Bakker wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:39:10 -0000, "Niall Litchfield"
> > <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote:
> >
> > >"Nuno Souto" <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam> wrote in message
> > >news:3c46dcb4.3399390_at_news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> > >> >Larry Ellision the founder of Oracle
> > >> >> has been championing the Sql language before there was any company
> > >around
> > >> >> like Microsoft.
> > >> >>
> > >>
> > >> that is indeed very true.
> > ><pedantry>
> > >Not really. Microsoft was founded in 1975. This was before any
commercially
> > >available product based on SQL so far as I am aware.
> > ></pedantry>
> >
> > And it took them 5 full years to have their first stolen product (DOS)
> > shippe? WOW
> > I've read in a Bill Gates biography Bill Gates was mainly recognized
> > for his debugging capacities.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
> >
> > To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address
>
Received on Thu Jan 17 2002 - 20:33:42 CST
