[Elecraft] Spilling the HF beans .....

[Bill Coleman]

On Jun 3, 2007, at 1:54 PM, w6jd at comcast.net wrote:

> That's the story I remember. Gates has been great at acquiring  
> other peoples projects and turning them into gold..I'm not sure  
> he's ever actually written a line of code!

Gates certainly did write code back in the early, early days of  
Microsoft. As late as the mid-90's, he also performed code-reviews of  
various programmers. (A good review from Gates was apparently a good  
career boost)

 From the book "Programmers at Work" (c 1985), Gates talked at length  
about some of his programming and design tasks. One that stays with  
me is the bit about how Excel implements Cut, Copy, Paste. He came up  
with some clever behavior to limit the amount of temporary memory  
needed.

Of course, 22 years later, that non-standard behavior is the bane of  
anyone using Excel. I know it causes me frustration every time I use  
Excel....

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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