>>105638255>bill gates was never a programmerIncorrect. More of a mathematician than a code monkey though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_sorting
So he wrote the most efficient algorithm to sort a stack of pancakes which was unning competition at Harvard. It took decades for someone having a marginally better solution ... that was only achievable by using supercomputers.
There was a Harvard professor of his that sort of got disappointed that Gates had dropped out of Harvard, saying that Gates would likely succeed in academia.
So yeah he was priviliged from the start and it's normal to hate spoiled rich nerds who become richest people in the world, but it's clear he's smarter than Carmack, let alone Musk, Zuck and other techbros.