There once was a company called Digital Research (DRI). They had a successful language called CBasic. A friend that worked there tried to convince them to devel

There once was a company called Digital Research (DRI). They had a successful language called CBasic. A friend that worked there tried to convince them to develop a compiler for another language called "C". They refused. He insisted. The result: "they fired my ass!" Later, DRI wrote a C compiler. Was it too late? Would they have been successful if they had written it sooner? Maybe. But, then that would have been a different company. Perhaps, another way of looking at it is that my friend was giving his company a job interview and, in his case, they failed.