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I think you're being a little unfairly downvoted. I don't think anyone would claim Gates should win prizes for minimal or beautiful code. But he certainly did

by ErrantX 17y ago

I think you're being a little unfairly downvoted. I don't think anyone would claim Gates should win prizes for minimal or beautiful code. But he certainly did a lot of good programming. In any hall of fame where we mention Linus, Guido and Bernstein we probably do need to mention Gates as well.

viraptor 17y ago
And where can we find any of his programs to look at?...
- ErrantX 17y ago
  anything in the first few years of MS. Altair.BASIC
  - viraptor 17y ago
    Of course. But I meant the source for which he could "win prizes for minimal or beautiful code". AFAIK none of it is legally available to anyone.
    - ErrantX 17y ago
      > I don't think anyone would claim Gates should win prizes for minimal or beautiful code
    - gjm11 17y ago
      I don't know whether it's legal, but http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/altair/index2.html http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/altair/index2.html has an annotated disassembly of Altair BASIC. I haven't given it more than the briefest glance myself, but allegedly there's some very nice stuff there. (Of course it's from a different era and no one outside deeply-embedded-land writes that sort of code any more other than for a twisted kind of fun.)