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Re:Could Bill Gates write code? by atakan_gurkan on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @08:32AM (#2628822)
This reminds me of the following piece from http://www.sorehands.com/humor/real5.htm

"Allegedly, one Real Programmer managed to tuck a pattern-matching program into a few hundred bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter."

BTW, I would be very grateful if someone could verify this.

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Re:Could Bill Gates write code? by ColinWright on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @11:10AM (#2629411)
It appears that the story is first mentioned in a letter by Ed Post of Tektronix to the editor of Datamation. A transcript can be found here:

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html

Every other instance of the quotation seems to reference that letter (if anything), and the letter appears to contain no further references.

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