XPost: comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/26/2026 4:47 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   > Lynn McGuire  schrieb:   
   >   
   >> I started writing Fortran code in 1975 for one of my dad's programmers   
   >> when I was 14.  Dad was always selling the future capabilities of the   
   >> software, more than the software did or was even designed to do.   
   >   
   > Sounds an awful lot like Bill Gates, but he even sold software   
   > that had not even been written.  There is a story where he wrote a   
   > Fortran compiler, which failed tests and was therefore not accepted,   
   > and he refused to fix the bugs.   
      
   Powerstation.  Very buggy.  Several service packs.  I could never get it   
   to work properly.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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