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

I remember writing a UNIX command shell for DOS in Turbo Pascal as a term project in an OS class. IIRC there were about 30 UNIX commands it had to handle. I learned a lot about inline assembler code doing that. What a PITA.