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>In article <3s7cgv$561@newsbf02.news.aol.com> cmcknight@aol.com (CMcknight) writes:
>>Observations:
>>
>>1) One or more degrees in Computer Science do no necessarily mean that the
>>individual is particularly competent as a      programmer.  It does
>>indicate that the individual has the _potential_ to be competent.

>Bill himself *is* a competent programmer.  Remember how he made his
>initial money?  MS-BASIC squeezed into teeny ROMs on several of the
>early home computers.  Quite an achievenment.

AHEM.  I beg to differ.  My Apple IIe uses Applesoft BASIC, which Apple bought 
from Billy boy, and supposedly he coded it himself, right?  Well, I programmed 
in it for three years, and then reverse-assembled it to see how it worked.  
On the source-code level it's junk.  It had memory allocation problems, some 
of the commands would crash the system (ever try GOTOing really large line 
numbers?), and there was virtually no interface for assembly-language add-ins. 
 And aside from all that, it was slow as hell.

I saw a BASIC compiler that Billy boy once supposedly wrote back in the 
way-early eighties.  The thing stank; it was four times slower than a compiler 
that came out a year before it, and it generated object code that was twice as 
large and ran at roughly about the same speed.

Bill is not a competent programmer.  If he were, DOS and Windows COULDN'T suck 
as badly as they do now.

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stw113@psu.edu	(Sean Werkema)				     BCNU :)