Does Bill Gates know how to program?

From: Thomas Pfaff <thomas100_at_home.com>
Date: Sat Sep 19 19:18:13 1998

Hi,

I've heard many times that he did the BASIC for the Trs-80 Model
100. At that time I think Microsoft put out pretty respectable
product [I thought so anyway].

Perhaps it makes sense that since he became strictly-management
oriented, Microsoft products have been backward, unimaginative and
often downright creepy.

Well, at least unlike the other Bill, his vices are limited to
economic pursuits. I just hope that someday soon they help to
modernize computing again. :-(

Outside of web browsers and Java, things have been pretty dull for
the last couple of years. I would say that that's okay for a
maturing industry, but there are so many helpful technologies on the
backburner right now that it's just unreal.

What was it somebody said? "The popularization of the Internet
slammed modern software development back ten years." Or something
like that.

Thomas
Received on Sat Sep 19 1998 - 19:18:13 BST