>>Thanks for the additional info. I'm still curious about if the current VS6 languages were written in VC++5, how problems in that platform would carry over ( or if they would ) into the developed languages. This may not even be an "appropriate" question, but I'm interested in if it is, and if so, what the ramifications would be.
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>Presumably, they don't carry over. If the resulting product was tested, the parts of VC++5 that are buggy were not used. I don't think you grasp the degree of independence between the language that wrote the compiler and the language that is compiled. One could write a C++ compiler in VFP, VB, QBasic, Perl,
>Forth, Lisp, etc. There is not necessarily any vestige of the program that wrote the compiler left in the language that is compiled. If you are interested in this subject, here is a good place to start Writing Complers and Interpreters.

Ok. Thanks.
Bill