Excel's Backbone
Out of shear morbid curiousity, I'd like to know what programming language
Excel is written in. I would usually guess Visual C++, but since it is so steeped in VB, I'm not sure. Anybody have a clue? Pflugs |
Excel's Backbone
Excel is older than C++, so I would assume that the core is
written in standard C (Excel was developed for the Mac before it was for DOS/Windows). It may well have been converted to C++ over the years. It is definitely not written in VB. -- Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP - Excel Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com "Pflugs" wrote in message ... Out of shear morbid curiousity, I'd like to know what programming language Excel is written in. I would usually guess Visual C++, but since it is so steeped in VB, I'm not sure. Anybody have a clue? Pflugs |
Excel's Backbone
Similar to Chip's post based on the age of Excel I would have to say the
original code would have been C. However based on the current architecture of Excel I would have to say the majority of the code would now be object oriented so C++ would be the order of the day (The properties and methods model is kinda obvious at this point). As to whether all of the code it object oriented (since C++ will compile procedural C code) it is hard to say whether the entire thing would be OOP. This is all just idle speculation on my part... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Pflugs" wrote: Out of shear morbid curiousity, I'd like to know what programming language Excel is written in. I would usually guess Visual C++, but since it is so steeped in VB, I'm not sure. Anybody have a clue? Pflugs |
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