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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (46392)	6/11/2000 2:12:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

"Back in the 1970s I reverse engineered the Microsoft code for several BASIC products" I can assure you there was nothing clean, nothing organized and nothing efficient about BASIC, particularly twenty years ago and certainly not from Microsoft. Furthermore, nobody has ever called Microsoft's code clean, organized or efficient: not now, not ever. I wrote more readable, more organized and needless to say way more efficient Z80 assembly than any twenty-year-old BASIC I've ever seen. So you "reverse engineered" and interpreted script? Why would anybody "reverse engineer" BASIC code? BTW, translating is probably not worthy of the term "reverse engineer".