alt Hacker NewsFrom [2]:
> Gates said: "I'd skip out on athletics and go down to this computer center. We were moving ahead very rapidly: Basic, FORTRAN, LISP, PDP-10 machine language, digging out the operating system listings from the trash and studying those."
Is there more context clarifying this means they studied the source code of DEC Basic?
In this [1] interview Gates says that he and his group got DEC BASIC source code and enhanced it.
[1] https://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm