Excel's Backbone

[Guest]

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

 

[Chip Pearson]

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.


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com

 

[Guest]

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...