It's "the coolest code I've ever written," the Microsoft co-founder says.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is remembering the code he wrote a half century ago—code that played a critical role in creating the company.

Read an excerpt below about how, in eighth grade, he discovered BASIC, which introduced him to the elegance and exacting ...

However, he fondly marks Altair BASIC as "the coolest code I've ever written ... Telemetry Systems), which inspired Gates to dabble in computer programming and software development.

In the 1970s, Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I've written.' It's now public for the first time.

The term ‘quantum computer’ gets usually tossed around ... succinctly by [Davide ‘dakk’ Gessa] with 200 lines of BASIC code on a Commodore 64 (GitHub), implementing a range of quantum ...

There was just one hitch: Gates and Allen hadn't yet come up with the code they promised Roberts. Gates and Allen tackled the challenge by latching onto the BASIC computer language that had been ...