>Bill,
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>An interesting anecdote for you.
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>Kernin and Ritchie wrote C in C so they ahd a language to use to write Unix. It is named C because A and B didn't work.
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>I would bet a dollar that VC++ is written in VC++. Sort a chicken and egg situation.
Interesting. Thanks Jim. I didn't know C was written in C, tho I did know that C was the "result" of A and B ( the languages, not algebra :-) ).
But would VC++6 be written in VC++5 ( similar to VB6, VFP6, etc. )? And if so, how do the previous C bugs propagate to the new version?
Bill
William A. Caton III
Software Engineer
MAXIMUS
Atlanta, Ga.