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Bill Gates and DONKEY.BAS

It's hard to imagine now, but in the early days of Microsoft, Bill Gates was an actual programmer [https://blog.codinghorror.com/how-to-become-a-better-programmer-by-not-programming/]. One bit of hard evidence is the BASIC program DONKEY.BAS [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DONKEY.BAS] included with original IBM PCs running IBM

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I Rock at BASIC

How in the world wide web did I not know about the "I Rock at BASIC" t-shirt [http://glarkware.com/adult/i-rock-at-basic]? [http://glarkware.com/adult/i-rock-at-basic] We've all written this program at some point in our careers. But only those of us who truly rock

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