Sorry to butt in
Is there a good reverse compiler to
get some source code out of ms apps so I can
make them run in Linux?
I mean make a linux binary.
On Fri, 01 Dec 2000, Mark Johnson wrote:
> 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++.
