From: donlhumphries@bigpond.com   
      
   "Auric__"  wrote in message   
   news:Xns9E2BADC069519auricauricauricauric@188.40.43.230...   
   > On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:21:11 GMT, DonH wrote:   
   >   
   >> The Word Count facility in a WORD document can be useful, but may need   
   >> to be taken with some caution.   
   >>   It seems a "word" is rather loosely defined, as congruent punctuation   
   >>   can   
   >> be part of a word; a word being any string of characters between blanks.   
   >>  A group of numbers is a word.   
   >>   The statistics resulting from Word Count can be used to derive other   
   >>   data:   
   >> Number of words per page; Average length of a word; Average number of   
   >> words per line; and number of spaces (between words).   
   >>   Word Count is handy for the aspiring novelist, or short story writer,   
   >>   in   
   >> determining if he/she has fulfilled the daily three thousand word quota.   
   >>   What computer program is used to give us Word Count?   
   >>   QBasic, based on DOS?  Or, more likely, Visual Basic?   
   >   
   > None of them. I don't have newer than Office 2000, so I can't speak for   
   > newer   
   > versions, but up to then, Word was written in C++ with some parts written   
   > in   
   > assembly. It's highly probable that they still do, but I have no way to   
   > check.   
   >   
   > (In general, MS doesn't write their programs in any dialect of BASIC.)   
   >   
   > --   
   > You notice why the floor's clean? It's because you all suck.   
      
   # C++ is language used to write most modern computer Games, it seems.   
   Pacman?   
      
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