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Charles Simonyi leaves Microsoft
tibbetts writes "The New York Times reports (printable version) (Free blah di blah) that Charles Simonyi, the former chief architect at Microsoft and creator of Bravo, a text-editing program that later became Microsoft Word, has left the company to form his own startup. The focus of his new company is to "simplify programming by representing programs in ways other than in the text syntax of conventional programming languages," which is highly ironic in light of his infamous Hungarian Notation style of naming variables. Perhaps more amazingly, 'Mr. Simonyi has left Microsoft with the right to use the intellectual property he developed and patented while working there.'"
I always prefered Reverse Polish myself.
Let's hope he isn't allowed to take Clippy the animated paper clip with him. die Clippy die.
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Quick, get him to work on OpenOffice!
I'm determined to reclaim my karma. Now, if I can only find a groundbreaking article and something witty to say....
"Mr. Simonyi has left Microsoft with the right to use the intellectual property he developed and patented while working there."
????!!!!!Errrrr??????
(conspiracy) Something seems to be going on here.(/conspiracy)
Does this mean that we're going to be seeing more programs with annoying paper clips?
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Mr. Simonyi has left Microsoft with the right to use the
intellectual property he developed and patented while working there.
That's only because Bill Gates owns his soul.
I'm sure he is a millionaire many times over and probalbly still holds loads of MSFT shares.
Maybe he just wants a change of scenery, get a chance to lead his own group.
This guy invented the hungarian notation yet his name is not an anagram of Satan, Baalzebub or Lucifer. Or has I missed something ? Or is it in the name of his new start-up ?
You must be too young to have ever seen a flowchart.
If it weren't for Charles Simonyi, I wouldn't be proud to be Hungarian at parties...
:P
Wait... I never actually get invited to parties... damn... day dreaming again...
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
But I hate it when my programs get stuck in the vacuum cleaner.
'Mr. Simonyi has left Microsoft with the right to use the intellectual property he developed and patented while working there.'
Hrrrmmm - Does this mean that, if he gets struck down by God in a blinding flash of light, he could be converted and release his stuff under GPL?
Quick - you get the camera flash, and I'll get the sodium pentathol...
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Calling Microsoft 'M$' is a sign that you're a retard.
The fact that you couldn't even do it right removes all doubt from my mind.
(scroll down to #29 in the list, it's worth it)
Would you settle for
#define x(n) foo.bar.yukims.glock(a, n)
x(1);
x(2);
x(8);
x(13);
x(19);
#undef x
Hmm?
(Note, I am not advocating this practise!)
-- Alastair
Charles S.: I'm leaving to go my own stuff
Bill G.: Charles, you'll have to give up your rights to all the stuff you've developed over the years
Charlies S.: Did I metion that I still have a copy of those memos that the government never saw?
Bill G.: Well when you put it like that, I'll give you the rights to all your stuff. Need any cash? No? Here have some anyway. Anything else I can do? Anything at all? Coffee, Water? Sure..?
Yup. There was a D&D module that was published that contained dawizard tables. Because the guy that wrote the module wrote about mages but the editor decided to call them wizards and did a search-and-replace.