Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Frankston

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American software developer Bob Frankston.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Bob Frankston

Robert M. Frankston is an American software engineer and businessman who co-created, with Dan Bricklin, the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. Frankston is also the co-founder of Software Arts.

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article. — © Bob Frankston
Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.
Early Apple machines - don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to keep debugging by isolating a problem, looking at memory in the limited debugging (weaker than the DOS DEBUG and no symbols) patch and retry and then re-program, download and try again. And again.
This is an important part of the Internet Dynamic - providing opportunity and not guarantees.
Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.
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