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____/ Homer on Wednesday 29 Jun 2011 13:45 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> "Intellectual property is the next software."
>>> --Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft patent troll, Bill's best buddy
>>>
>>> "The last thing this company needs is another fucking [computer]
>>> language."
>>>
>>> --Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft
>>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/barbariansledbybillgates.htm
>>
>> Eller saw Myhrvold's mouth move, but when the cosmologist talked,
>> it was Gates's voice that Eller heard. Gates wanted all of the
>> languages to be the same--BASIC. After all, Gates had written it.
>>
>> I'd <chuckle>, but the historical revisionism over BASIC is discomfiting.
>
> [quote]
> In computer programming, BASIC (an acronym which stands for Beginner's
> All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of high-level
> programming languages designed to be easy to use.
>
> The original Dartmouth BASIC was designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny
> and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA to
> provide computer access to non-science students.
>
> ...
>
> BASIC remains popular to this day in a handful of highly modified
> dialects and new languages influenced by BASIC such as Microsoft Visual
> Basic. In 2006, 59% of developers for the .NET platform used Visual
> Basic .NET as their only programming language.
> [/quote]
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC
>
> So 59% of .NET developers are beginners using an instructional language
> for students.
>
> That explains a lot about the Windows platform.
>
> Also, I was rather disturbed to discover the following from the original
> article:
>
> [quote]
> In early 1992, they had established a project called Homer to look at
> setting communications standards for the home. Gates would later use
> some of these ideas for his $53.4 million mansion on Lake Washington.
> [/quote]
>
> No comment.
"But since I worked on the IBM PC BASIC and the Model 100,
I havenât had a chance to actually create a program myself."
--Bill Gates, law school dropout and charlatan
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