[cpr]

Bob was my best buddy freshman year. He's a great fellow, though I've lost track of him lately.

He left Microsoft because he was never able to break into the tight "inner circle" of Gates, Ballmer and Allen, even though he was classmates of all of them.

I guess I shoulda taken his advice and joined MS as #8 way back when... ;-)

[didip]

Why you decided not to? There were plenty of opportunity to work on programming languages back in those MS days, no?

[cpr]

I didn't have mobility, for personal reasons. (OK, I'll tell you: I had joined a religious order, that I later left. Yes, I'm wacky. ;-)