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What was the main implementation programming language of old 16-bit Windows versions (Windows 1 - Windows 3.11)?
The “core” operating system in Windows 1.0 to 3.11 consists of three modules: GDI, KERNEL, and USER. Add some fonts and a few device drivers (keyboard, mouse, video, and “system” mostly), and you can ...
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What was the main implementation programming language of old 16-bit Windows versions (Windows 1 - Windows 3.11)?
Like Windows 95, Windows 1.x - 3.x were written in Microsoft C, with some assembly in the kernel. Program Manager, for example, is written in C.
Windows 95 is derived from Windows 3; while Windows 95 ...
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Which programming language/environment pioneered row-major array order?
The question therefore is, when and why was the row-major order introduced in languages which had native multi-dimensional array types?
I can't answer the "when" offhand, but the "why&...
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Which programming language/environment pioneered row-major array order?
TL;DR: COBOL
Having said that (see also below), I'm not sure if the examples used are really valid. For one, neither Pascal nor PL/1 define row or column order.
Original 1971 Pascal definition makes ...
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