Re:Proof? Put up or Shut up! (Score 1)

There's a coding contest called "Storm the Gates" mentioned in "Gates" by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews (pp 326-237). It was a coding contest among Gates (using QuickBASIC 2.0), Jeff Duntemann (PC Tech Journal using Turbo Pascal) and Charles Petzold (using Microsoft C). This contest took place in mid-1986. According to the book, Gates was nervous about this contest because he hadn't coded in years. The night before the contest, he stayed up and got up to speed with QuickBASIC. According to this book, Gates easily finished first -- twice as fast as the runner-up. I'm not saying that any of this is true -- it's just mentioned in this book that someone gave me back in 1994.