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Enmity:
Is that true?
This part says microshit handed the code over to court during the IE integration what the fuck lawsuit and found it to be written in Basic.

Here is the english version, courtsy of The Jimmy James and your good looking moderators.
 
quote:
Microsoft obeys the court the command, handed over has surpassed 2
hundred million line of WinXP source code. This is unites &# 21512 by
nine states; The lawsuit group and the district of Columbia requires
together, by depends on this to analyze IE browsing whether can and
the Windows job system is independent! Had not thought that, the
inspection source code technical expert surprised detected: Windows
unexpectedly &# 28,982; Is (symbol programming language which studies
for beginner) writes by Basic.

"This is simply inconceivable," the technical expert sighed, "this
explained Microsoft engineer is industry? 28; ? Most has the creative
program teacher." In expert's forecast, Windows at least should be by
C or  159; The C ++ this kind of high step language write, the Basic
appearance indeed is lets National People's Congress fall the
eyeglasses. But this result & #65292; As if also the excusable or
pardonable under the circumstances, Bill Gates itself is Basic ?
went against the master, he once has said A 306; In the Basic
programming aspect, he dares to challenge any person also to dare to
accept no matter what who challenge.

Hands over the source code the target to prove IE is whether
inseparable with Windows, now does not have the result, because of 2?
0; The good source code certainly to be sure for a while half exactly
may analyze. But it is said, court and Microsoft? 3; Achieved the
security agreement that, Guaranteed WinXP the source code does not
divulge to outside.

--- End quote ---


[ December 28, 2003: Message edited by: X11: always understood ]

Xeen:
You're probably misunderstanding something. Also depends on what you mean by Windows. The fundamental parts of the OS like the boot loader, the kernel, all the protocols, the interface, the drivers, the hardware/software interfaces, all that is definately written in C and/or C++. Certain parts might be written in assembly.

Now other, small parts of the OS could have been written in Basic, for example stuff like the registry, control panel applets, or maybe even IE. Though I highly doubt it. The majority if not all of Windows is written in C/C++.

rkmaster27:
Visual Basic maybe?

Or perhaps it's "MacBasic" that MS stole from Apple in the late 1980s? The thing they used to make VB?

anphanax:
Actually that's not entirely true. From I've seen, Microsoft bought the "Thunder" technology from Cooper Software.

Microsoft did try to shut down mac's visual developement system, but I wonder if they did so before or after a deal with Cooper. Also, makes you think who thought it first... Cooper or Apple..

Actually the idea of VPL (Visual programming languages) has been around for quite some time, so it's not like it matters today.

As for the BASIC /w IE comment, Microsoft would have to be pretty stupid (or lazy) to compile "operating system components" with something as slow as VB. Why did they make the Microsoft Foundation Classes if they aren't going to use them.

[ December 20, 2003: Message edited by: anphanax ]

psyjax:
Not to mention the fact that BASIC is an interpreted language. You would need a software or built in hardware component, to interpret it to Machine code.

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