On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Richard wrote:
In article <BEB54E1E-9E0B-4054-A387-09C98454758B at gmail.com>,
David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> writes:
Simonyi may have been a prodigy, [...]
srsly? A PRODIGY? What crack have you been smoking? The guy was
just another programmer, no better or worse than any other good
programmer, who happened to be lucky enough to work at MSFT at the
time when it could still make you a millionaire.
...and don't get me started on "hungarian notation".
g.
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