Forum: Legacy and Other Languages  Apr 1st, 2008 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 9,455 I work with these packages at work.
MS Visual C++ supplies the development environment, and can be used to develop C++ functions and procedures if your project needs them. Digital Fortran (now... |
| Forum: Legacy and Other Languages Jan 12th, 2008 |
| Replies: 66 Views: 15,370 Perhaps you're right, because I don't know enough about Linux to know whether it had a background indexing service (yes I know about grep, awk and and other command line searching and parsing... |
| Forum: Legacy and Other Languages Dec 17th, 2007 |
| Replies: 66 Views: 15,370 Exactly right on bling. I was trying to figure out a good name for interface "features" that really didn't do anything useful, but were flashy. Bling was it, and it's not complimentary.
In... |
| Forum: Legacy and Other Languages Dec 16th, 2007 |
| Replies: 66 Views: 15,370 Vista got bloated because of the perceived need for more security (probably needed, but the cure is often an annoying message box asking the superuser if he really wanted to change that feature, for... |
| Forum: Legacy and Other Languages Dec 16th, 2007 |
| Replies: 66 Views: 15,370 Actually, all versions of Windows before Win95 (not counting the versions of Windows NT) ran on top of MSDOS.
Even Win95 and Win98 (and probably even WinME) had remnants of MSDOS hidden away... |
| Forum: Legacy and Other Languages Nov 19th, 2007 |
| Replies: 66 Views: 15,370 Bill's original Basic was written in assembler on a Teletype machine, and saved to paper tape. I think I remember reading that the original version of BASIC for the Altair was distributed on paper... |
