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A comment on Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming. Parent comment

Re:Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming by dotancohen on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:07AM (#47424672)
Yes, actually. Gates wrote great software.

Microsoft is another story.

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Re:Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming by jll29 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:42AM (#47425050)
And Paul Allen wrote a whole Altair emulator so that they could use an (academic) Harvard computer for their little (commercial) project and test/run Bill Gates' BASIC interpreter on it.
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