Who Wants To Be a Billionaire Coder?

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 19, 2009 @02:30PM from the will-settle-for-billionaire dept.

theodp writes "Computerworld reports that 60-year-old billionaire John Sall still enjoys cranking out code as the chief architect of JMP ('John's Macintosh Project'), the less-profitable-but-more-fun software from SAS that's used primarily by research scientists, engineers, and Six Sigma manufacturing types. 'It's always been my job to be a statistical software developer,' explains SAS co-founder Sall. So if you didn't have to work — and had more money than George Lucas and Steven Spielberg — would you be like Sall and continue to program? And if so, what type of projects would you work on?"

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Re:Probably something like Carmack is doing. by jcr · 2009-09-19 18:59 · Score: 2, Informative

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That's not entirely correct. There are UAVs that NASA flies for research purposes, and there are some other projects going on for wilderness search and rescue.
-jcr

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