Jealous much? Because you keep playing the "100s of 1000s of dollars" tune, oblivious to the fact that he only talks about making said amount with his assemble

Jealous much? Because you keep playing the "100s of 1000s of dollars" tune, oblivious to the fact that he only talks about making said amount with his assembler program. He doesn't write that rewriting it in C made him 100s of 1000s of dollars -- just that he rewrote it to be easier to maintain. And VB was just the front-end for said project. Plus, all the rest as mentioned as tools, without mentioning money at all ("plenty of other projects where made in APL, Forth, Lisp" etc). Then you go on to miss the rest 70% of his comment, which isn't about money at all, but discusses a rather "hardcore", old-school way of teaching programming.