[Info-vax] BASIC (and Horizon)

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 22:11:20 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 1/31/2024 9:50 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:42:50 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
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>>> C# is primarily for business applications.
>> 
>> Never heard of it being used for anything important. For example,
>> Microsoft would never use it itself in Office.
> 
> It is correct that MS never rewrote MSO from C++ to C#.
> They did port VS to C# though.

Maybe, but VS Code takes an entirely different tack, using Electron (the 
Chromium engine + TypeScript/JavaScript) instead. Wonder why?

> But C# is all over. Finance, e-commerce, government etc..

All that stuff that’s now in the cloud?