From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:16:58 GMT, DonH wrote:   
      
   > "Auric__"  wrote in message   
   > news:Xns9E2BADC069519auricauricauricauric@188.40.43.230...   
   >> On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:21:11 GMT, DonH wrote:   
   [snip]   
   >>>   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.)   
   >   
   > # C++ is language used to write most modern computer Games, it seems.   
      
   Games are written in many, many languages. In general, for any given   
   language, at least one game has been written for it. Popular languages have   
   too many games to easily count.   
      
   > Pacman?   
      
   Originally written in Z80 assembly. Clones have been written in several   
   languages.   
      
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