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Wait ohh.. On what basis are we making this argument?

drealboy:


& u think these qualify him to be in the top ten in the context of this topic?
no? he rewrote part of MS codes? how how does that make him different from other gud programmers that upgrade codes written by someone else.
he design pancake algorithm? yes thas great work right there by Bill but still hundreds of unknown programmers have also contributed to programming and its algorithms. even u as a coder can even contribute to an open source language lyk PHP and what have you. still those feats by Bill sure is legendary but its in no way enough to put him in that position. I see Bill Gates more as great entrepreneur than programmer.

... *tenders resignation letter... *leaves this thread*

WhiZTiM:


Oga, calm down.....
I thought my memory had begun to deceive me.... But I doubt, the quoted are from Wikipedia (Link below)

"In the first five years, Gates personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped, and often rewrote parts of it as he saw fit."
..... Within the first five years, the COMPANY's (not just Windows) code must have exponentially grown and covered so many complex domains... That's not all ohhh

"Gates devised an algorithm for pancake sorting as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems presented in a combinatorics.... Gates's solution held the record as the fastest version for over thirty years; its successor is faster by only one percent."

Please help me further 'unconfuse' my point...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

yeah,He was good. Very good. But,though i didnt write this list, the criteria is for iconic works.
C.a.r hoare, inventor of quick sort, 'null' ideology,mutexes and locks in multithreading is a notable scientist. If bill gates is here for his pancake sort watof hoare?
Richard stallman is known for emacs. Linus torvalds - linux.
Gates - windows? Most of it? Unverified.

all this ranting and nobody mentioned charles goldfarb? This list is as bleeped as the nigerian economy

KazukiIto:


Negro we are discussing about "Greatest Programmers in History" and you are mentioning Gates and Jobs. Gates is a talented "Businessman" and Jobs was a talented "Stylish Businessman". They don't qualify at all in the context we are discussing right now. And Gates being the first to design a convenient GUI, negro go do more research.

maybe u shud read up on gates bro!! he personally reviews all d code that are shipped out of Microsoft!! u think a businessman can do that??. gates is a programmer wit a business mindset!!!

drealboy:


what do you mean by convenient GUI? Bill did not invent GUI. the first GUI was developed by XEROX which later inspired Apple's GUI.So Microsoft was not even the first nor the second to develop GUI OS.

Microsoft having her own version of some language like Jscript for JavaScript boils down to platform thing.

In developed countries today most folks don't even use Microsoft OS, they mostly use MAC, Microsoft OS is only heavily use in Africa.
That depends on the market and location but i tell u what? working with Microsoft own languages is a nightmare for programmers because of cross platform issues,although that has reduced significantly.No serious programmers wants to be tied down by platform. Real programmers use Unix Based OS.

Bill is great, i meant one the greatest thing that has ever happened to humanity but so are those two Google guys that are performing wonders also, they even have their own languages. IMO Bill is unworthy of top ten position.

IMHO considering his era and d level of tech then, he is worthy of that position!! check put the Basic they wrote for Altair!! even d survival of Microsoft alone, their product and vision is à real motivation!!!

LordRahl001:
IMHO considering his era and d level of tech then, he is worthy of that position!! check put the Basic they wrote for Altair!! even d survival of Microsoft alone, their product and vision is à real motivation!!!

paul allen programmed most of basic. Don box was a very influential programmer @ ms.
If Gates makes it Allen should too.
Dont mix things up, he is being listed because of his enterpreneurial feats.

asalimpo:

paul allen programmed most of basic. Don box was a very influential programmer @ ms.
If Gates makes it Allen should too.
Dont mix things up, he is being listed because of his enterpreneurial feats.

you have said it all

LordRahl001:
maybe u shud read up on gates bro!! he personally reviews all d code that are shipped out of Microsoft!! u think a businessman can do that??. gates is a programmer wit a business mindset!!!

Hmmm! So he qualifies to be among the top "10 Greatest Programmers in History"?

KazukiIto:


Hmmm! So he qualifies to be among the top "10 Greatest Programmers in History"?

IMO yes he is!!!

LordRahl001:
IMO yes he is!!!

like, awardg a Nobel prize to the professor who read all works that were tendered for consideration by prospective laureates!!

asalimpo:

like, awardg a Nobel prize to the professor who read all works that were tendered for consideration by prospective laureates!!

even u know that's not a fair comparism!!! its takes a programmer to review a code bro!! the performance, structures, algorithm concept with different handwritings!!! seriously!! reviewing a code isn't as easy as u think sir!! and esp not Microsoft @ DAT time!!!

LordRahl001:
even u know that's not a fair comparism!!! its takes a programmer to review a code bro!! the performance, structures, algorithm concept with different handwritings!!! seriously!! reviewing a code isn't as easy as u think sir!! and esp not Microsoft @ DAT time!!!

a professor is an academic expert in a partcular field. So d analogy fits.

asalimpo:


a professor is an academic expert in a partcular field. So d analogy fits.

even u just admmitted that gates is an expert in programming overseeing other experts work!! including Allen's code!!! seriously u need that -*great* element!!!!

drealboy:


& u think these qualify him to be in the top ten in the context of this topic?
no? he rewrote part of MS codes? how how does that make him different from other gud programmers that upgrade codes written by someone else.
he design pancake algorithm? yes thas great work right there by Bill but still hundreds of UNKNOWN programmers have also contributed to programming and its algorithms. even u as a coder can even contribute to an open source language lyk PHP and what have you. still those feats by Bill sure is legendary but its in no way enough to put him in that position. I see Bill Gates more as great entrepreneur THAN A PROGRAMMER.

perfect eye Opener.

LordRahl001:
even u just admmitted that gates is an expert in programming overseeing other experts work!! including Allen's code!!! seriously u need that -*great* element!!!!

the people tht made tht list hav works bearing their names. Standout works.
Bill gates has NONE. He has a corporation. He's known for his corporate exploits ,mainly.

asalimpo:


the people tht made tht list hav works bearing their names. Standout works.
Bill gates has NONE. He has a corporation. He's known for his corporate exploits ,mainly.

Are you sure, any way I believe the list is incomplete without Bill Joy for his work on VI and Rasmus Lerdorf for his PHP works

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