XPost: comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++   
   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   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.   
      
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