The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress

Re:The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress by guillaume_a on Saturday July 23, 2011 @06:17PM (#2797985)

Gates wrote, by himself, the best BAISC interpreter in the industry in a matter of months. At a time where there was no internet to check out the latest papers, StackOverflow to help you out, etc.

Way more impressive than sticking together a few perlscripts for a social networking website. Zuckerberg wasn't the main programmer behind Facebook, btw.

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Re:The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress by code_duck on Saturday July 23, 2011 @06:20PM (#2797993)

Gates wrote the interpreter along with Paul Allen and Monte Davidoff... while he distinguished himself as a programmer, he's not quite that level of amazing. I get the impression that in a situation similar to (but not as lopsided as) Wozniak and Jobs' arrangement, Allen did a bit more of the technical heavy lifting and Gates planned and arranged the business side.

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Re:The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress by macrael on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @10:01PM (#2815063)

I'd recommend you read http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html

wherein Joel Spolsky was reviewed by Bill Gates. It is pretty clear the man had serious technical chops.

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