Boy! You're starting a religious war here.
Most of us are not fans of the guy.
Here is my cent and a half (I wouldn't give two cents for Bill Gates): He is
too buisy learning monopolistic laws to be bothered with programming. If he
was still in the coding arena Visual C++ probably would not be the way it is
today and the MFC would probably make sense too. That is IF he was
programming AND was interested in it.
I guess he's more on the design and what he calls innovation (plagiarism),
he says let's do that and there are 2000 employees jumping on it.
So my answer is he probably forgot what code looks like.
Francois
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-----Original Message-----
From: oajones <oajones_at_bright.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, September 19, 1998 7:09 AM
Subject: Does Bill Gates know how to program?
>I've got a question I've been meaning to ask for a long time. Does Bill
>Gates know how to program? If my memory serves me correct he knew how to
>progam in BASIC back in the late 70's, his buddy Paul Allen knew machine
>language.
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