Hello, I think they use C++ (Visual ?) for just about everything. As I understood it, the .NET CLR was written in C++, as was Visual Studio. It always did my noodle that something could compile itself, if you see what I mean. Cool though.
I'm also pretty sure Office is written in C++ because I remember reading an early .NET article when they were testing some .NET migration tool (from existing MFC to C#/CLR) they used it on the C++ Word codebase. This of course caused some buffoon to immediately speculate that portable Word was on the way! Ho ho ho. Microsoft stomped on that one pretty quick. I would hope they don't use VB for anything. Sorry, but imho, I don't think VB is up to the job. Simon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Sent: 07 March 2002 17:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] sorry about this post, its just that im doing a report for school and Im trying to find out what language was used when making things like Microsoft office and other Microsoft apps? Someone said VB but im not really sure if VB (not vb.net) has the power for it all. Perhaps for the interface, but not the whole processing system behind it... --tom -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
