RE: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-11 Thread Stuart Walsh
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Persuter Sent: 10 March 2002 07:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps? /me notes that it seems unlikely that MS would use any type

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-09 Thread botman
As Far As I Know IMVHO, you make me ROFLMAO. BIAI http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html Jeffrey botman Broome ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit:

RE: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-09 Thread Persuter
Magnan Sent: 08 March 2002 09:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps? Ok, how dumb of me earlier. I ran all the .exes through the dependency walker that comes with Visual Studio. A VB App (any that I've ever seen, are all

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-08 Thread Pat Magnan
Ok, how dumb of me earlier. I ran all the .exes through the dependency walker that comes with Visual Studio. A VB App (any that I've ever seen, are all dependent on: MSVBVM50.DLL which in turn depends on stuff like GDI, Kernell, etc type dlls An MFC App would have MFC42 dll in its dependency

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-08 Thread Nicolai Haehnle
Am Freitag, 8. März 2002 10:38 schrieb Pat Magnan: Ok, how dumb of me earlier. I ran all the .exes through the dependency walker that comes with Visual Studio. A VB App (any that I've ever seen, are all dependent on: MSVBVM50.DLL which in turn depends on stuff like GDI, Kernell, etc type

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-08 Thread Oskar 'Zoot' Lindgren
Office has VBA... that is why - Original Message - From: Nicolai Haehnle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps? Am Freitag, 8. März 2002 10:38 schrieb Pat Magnan: Ok, how

RE: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-08 Thread Simon Rose
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps? Ok, how dumb of me earlier. I ran all the .exes through the dependency walker that comes with Visual Studio. A VB App (any that I've ever seen, are all dependent on: MSVBVM50.DLL which in turn depends on stuff like

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-08 Thread Pat Magnan
Heh, good point about the static linking, dependency walker i don't think would expose that. However, unless it was statically linked, there's no double checking needed ;) It shows you what anything is dependent on, and that's how I came to that conclusion, by following all the branches. ;) Ok,

RE: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-08 Thread Michael Shimmins
: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps? Simon Rose wrote: It always did my noodle that something could compile itself, if you see what I mean. Cool though. It's called bootstrapping and every compiler does it. You have to start at machine level somewhere, tho, unless

[hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-08 Thread Matthew Lewis
I have it on good authority (the linux user's group) that Windoze OS's (prior to XP) were written using Mr. Bill's microBasic (circa 1975 vintage). Windoze XP was a complete re-write using interprative COBOL. This was done since M$ wants to move into the business enterprise software market. (Hey,

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-08 Thread [DRP]Avatar-X
]]On Behalf Of Florian Zschocke Sent: Friday, 8 March 2002 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps? Simon Rose wrote: It always did my noodle that something could compile itself, if you see what I mean. Cool though. It's called

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-07 Thread Pat Magnan
I think too many old schoolers still assume VB to be as bad as it was in the old days. VB ain't C or Delphi, but realistically can do a lot of stuff in ye ole business app that runs just fine. The run times also aren't nearly as poor compared to C as they used to be. I think they use a

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-07 Thread Oskar 'Zoot' Lindgren
asm and c/c++ - Original Message - From: Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:30 PM 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

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-07 Thread _Phantom_
I doubt asm tbh... most probably done in Visual C++ (using a combo of C++ and C) - Original Message - From: Oskar 'Zoot' Lindgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:39 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-07 Thread _Phantom_
do langauge microsoft use for their apps? I think too many old schoolers still assume VB to be as bad as it was in the old days. VB ain't C or Delphi, but realistically can do a lot of stuff in ye ole business app that runs just fine. The run times also aren't nearly as poor compared to C

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-07 Thread Tim Holt
, March 07, 2002 6:32 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps? I think too many old schoolers still assume VB to be as bad as it was in the old days. VB ain't C or Delphi, but realistically can do a lot of stuff in ye ole business app that runs just fine. The run

RE: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-07 Thread Dynerman David M
ocaml. Most definitely objective caml. david -Original Message- From: Tim Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps? Perl. Most definitely perl. _Phantom_

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-07 Thread Tim Holt
: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:42 PM Subject: RE: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps? ocaml. Most definitely objective caml. david -Original Message- From: Tim Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-07 Thread Oskar 'Zoot' Lindgren
Hey! I write RPG at work! - Original Message - From: botman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 8:05 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps? Could be COBOL, RPG or ALGOL68. :) Jeffrey botman Broome

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-07 Thread botman
Hey! I write RPG at work! O! That's too bad! ;) I maintain some stuff in FORTRAN when I have to. :( Jeffrey botman Broome ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit:

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-07 Thread _Phantom_
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:09 PM Subject: RE: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps? 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

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-07 Thread Daniel Koppes
Maybe they wrote them in Delphi --- Florian Zschocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Rose wrote: It always did my noodle that something could compile itself, if you see what I mean. Cool though. It's called bootstrapping and every compiler does it. You have to start at

Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps?

2002-03-07 Thread viosys
you just reminded me of the phrase by Borland Software... Delphi was coded in Delphi - Original Message - From: Daniel Koppes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] OT: what do langauge microsoft use for their apps