Oh my. He codedWord and Excel, he's sometimes
characterized as
the smartest coder
in the world. Now he's dating
Martha Stewart. Gads!
Posted on 01/26/2007 11:59:46 AM PST by theFIRMbss
MOSCOW - A former software developer at Microsoft could make a trip to the international space station next year aboard a Russian rocket ship, the RIA news agency reported Monday.
Hungarian-born Charles Simonyi, who was one of the key developers behind applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel, would become the world's fifth paying space passenger. (MSNBC is a Microsoft-NBC joint venture.)
...
Simonyi, a Seattle-area resident, is an experienced pilot. He has also been romantically linked with domestic magnate Martha Stewart in the gossip columns. Simonyi accompanied Stewart on a recent zero-gravity flight, and in a narrated video of the outing, she referred to Simonyi as "my friend Charles."
At one point in the video, Simonyi could be seen dancing in weightlessness with Stewart. "Charles is a great dancer — he's never danced quite like that before," Stewart said in her narration.
This report includes information from Reuters and MSNBC.com's Alan Boyle and James Oberg.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Oh my. He codedLOL. I hear ya.
You two must be young.
Excel is one of the best
programs ever made.
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"...The great implementation of the spreadsheet was not VisiCalc or even Lotus 1-2-3 but Microsoft Excel, which extended the spreadsheet's power and gave businesspeople a variety of calculating tools. Microsoft's claims that it makes great software are open to dispute, but the Excel spreadsheet is here to stay. Nearly everyone is touched by it."
What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?, InformationWeek, From the August 14, 2006 issue
Sounds hot and heavy to me. OTOH, Martha is good around the house and she's done time in a women's prison. That's a fantasy for some men.
The knowledge Martha's claiming is rather all-inclusive, it would appear. You should be blushing at that admission, Martha.
BTW, the article says he's the smartest coder, not the best coder. I've been a pretty fair coder in my day (and a Senior Consultant to Microsoft), I've met Charles, and the statement has a very high likelihood of being correct.
HF
And next month's issue of Martha Stewart Living will feature an article on "Accessorizing for Vomit".
Hey great! Maybe we can look forward to another Paris Hilton-type home porn video!
I'm glad Microsoft dropped Hungarian Notation. It was a constant PITA.
Oops. I meant to link
this whole Hungarian thing
at the very start.
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Hungarian notation is a naming convention in computer programming, in which the name of an object indicates its type or intended use. There are two types of Hungarian notation: Systems Hungarian notation and Apps Hungarian notation.
It was designed to be language-independent, and found its first major use with the BCPL programming language. Because BCPL has no data types other than the machine word, nothing in the language itself helps a programmer remember variables' types. Hungarian notation aims to remedy this by providing the programmer with explicit knowledge of each variable's data type.
In Hungarian notation, a variable name starts with one or more lower-case letters which are mnemonics for the type or purpose of that variable, followed by whatever the name the programmer has chosen; this last part is sometimes distinguished as the given name. The first character of the given name can be capitalised to separate it from the type indicators (see also CamelCase). Otherwise the case of this character denotes scope.
History
The original Hungarian notation, which would now be called Apps Hungarian, was invented by Charles Simonyi, a programmer who worked at Xerox PARC circa 1972-1981, and who later became Chief Architect at Microsoft. . . .
[Hungarian notation]
I kind of like it.
Not for futzing around, but
for large, group projects.
If he coded Word, he still isn't the smartest coder in the world.
So he's the culprit! A pox upon him and his new girlfriend!
Starring Matha Stewart and some old MS programmer geek? You need to get out more often. :)
"Hey great! Maybe we can look forward to another Paris Hilton-type home porn video!"
It would be a threesome with those two and the talking paperclip.
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Martha's very good at cleaning up messy stains . . . (And I'd like to get Wilson Bryan Key's opinion of this picture. It's turning me on . . .) |
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