>>Bill,
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>>>Walter, .NET uses Windows, so by definition, Windows had to exist before .NET.
>>>Could Windows be rewritten in .NET?
>>>Hmmm good question. Anyone out there know the answer?
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>>In VFP, many of the tools and designers were written in VFP itself. I don't see why it would be different for Windows. Sure the core (kernel) needs to be written in C/C++/Assembly, but the user interface can be written in anything that runs on top of that.
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>Going way back, the early C compilers were written in C.

And the Pascal compiler was written in Pascal. My Masters' thesis project was adding a garbage collector.

Tamar