I just can't fathom that MS Office or IE are VB applications. For sure the
NT Services are not VB apps. ActiveX controls are C++. The common controls
library are C++ too (tabs, list views, rich edit views). The Visual
InterDev, VB, and VC IDEs are C & C++. The VB interpreter engine is
probably C++, C, and assembler. I can't imagine building a kernel with
anything other than assembly or C...
I asked this question on a MSVC developer mailing list and all the replies
where that the kernel OS has always been in assembler and C and recently
(Win98 onwards) with a little C++.
VB is a wrapper around the Windows C API, so I just can't believe that the
majority of the OS and supporting native apps are written in VB...
http://www.johnsmiley.com/visualbasic/vbhistory.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 8:14 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux
you guys really should do a little more research into the languages M$ has
used to write windows with. Since Win3.11 only the kernel has been written
in something other than VB. Visual BAsic (not the script). The kernel is
written in Assembly and M$ C++.
