john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) (04/18/89)
I just ran "strings" on the CL.EXE that comes with MSC 5.1. I noticed what
appeared to be SCCS version numbers throughout the program. (Not to mention
other oddities like a FORTRAN compiler banner!) Does anyone know if Microsoft
uses Unix to do their in-house software development?
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John Temples - UUCP: {uiucuxc,hoptoad,petsd}!peora!rtmvax!bilver!jwt!johncs3b3aj@maccs.McMaster.CA (Stephen M. Dunn) (04/21/89)
In article <264@jwt.UUCP> john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes: >I just ran "strings" on the CL.EXE that comes with MSC 5.1. I noticed what >appeared to be SCCS version numbers throughout the program. (Not to mention >other oddities like a FORTRAN compiler banner!) Does anyone know if Microsoft >uses Unix to do their in-house software development? I don't know about that question, but I do know that at one time they used the same back end for different compilers. microsoft Fortran77 V3.2 was a three-pass beastie with passes named FOR1, PAS2, PAS3 (if memory serves). Yes indeed, PAS? were also the back end of their Pascal compiler at that time. I guess if it saves lotsa man-hours and produces a compiler with less bugs, they might as well. I wonder if they still do some of that type of thing ... your mentioning the FORTRAN banner reminded me of that. -- ====================================================================== ! Stephen M. Dunn, cs3b3aj@maccs.McMaster.CA ! DISCLAIMER: ! ! This space left unintentionally blank - vi ! I'm only an undergrad ! ======================================================================