Technical Question

[Gary T. H. Novosel]

I am taking a Programming Concepts course at the University of Phoenix
Online and am completing an assignment to determine which programming
languages were used to develop some popular applications. I have browsed the
MS site for Office 2K3 and could find no reference to the development
platforms used.

What languages were used to develop the Office 2K3 applications?

 

[Rob Schneider]

Suggest you try to make direct contact with the Microsoft Office
developers (in Redmond?) and see if they will tell you.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Gary T. H. Novosel]

Now for the fun part... how to contact them...

I posted a message to the privatenews group and am awaiting a reply.

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

I am taking a Programming Concepts course at the University of Phoenix
Online and am completing an assignment to determine which programming
languages were used to develop some popular applications. I have browsed the
MS site for Office 2K3 and could find no reference to the development
platforms used.

What languages were used to develop the Office 2K3 applications?

Gary,

The Office 2003 suite is written a number of languages as it is not a single
program, but a collection of executables and dynamic link libraries.
The choice of language is often governed by the nature of the application or
component being developed and the performance characteristics required by
that application or component.
You will find Office 2003 predominantly written in C++ and C.
Smaller amounts of other languages may have been used in other areas.

Remember there is no one perfect programming language. With our own move to
using the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and the .Net Framework, we are
moving to allow programmers to use pretty much any supported language even
in the same source files so that they may switch to the language that best
suits the needs to express certain programming constructs at that point in
the program
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Regards,

Mike
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[Gary T. H. Novosel]

Mike,

Thanks for the reply.

I have been a developer for about fifteen years now and have worked with
many languages in many environments. I like your comment regarding "no one
perfect programming language". We had a discussion in class last week where
the professor asked us to choose our perfect programming language and then
defend our choice. While every other student promptly made a choice I chose
not to. In my day to day work I use various components of Visual Studio, SQL
Server, WonderWare, Intellution, etc. I was easily able to defend each in
the context that I use them.

Again, Thanks for your reply.

Gary Novosel

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

Your welcome Gary,

If you are interested in programming languages , then you may like to take a
look at a new one we are developing/researching in our research department
called F#
see
http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp.aspx

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Mike
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[Gary T. H. Novosel]

Mike,

Thanks for the link. It is always nice to have the ability to peer into the
future!

Gary