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		dotancohen 17 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) Yes, actually. Gates wrote great software. Microsoft is another story.

jll29 17 days ago [–]

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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