My First Bill Gates Review

link https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/

Joel Spolsky, program manager for the Excel team, recounts his first Bill Gates review. Joel got numerous features added e.g. `IDispatch`, `Variant`, `For each` and `With`. It also discusses the dreaded Date bug ported to Excel from Lotus 123.

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