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by cyberax
1024 days ago
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> C++ was not an approved programming language for Win95 components in its quest to run on Brad Silverberg's (Win95 manager) mom's 4MB RAM PC. Plenty of Windows 95 components were written in C++, including pretty much everything that dealt with OLE. WinNT also used C++ for the graphics layer. |
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Lots of MS groups were using C++ before Win95, including the Exchange group.
Windows for Workgroups 3.1+ included C++ code.
I recall that in the initial Win95 group meeting, C++ wasn't allowed. I moved to another team, so I don't know if that restriction was relaxed or not and/or when they allowed C++.
The email client included with Win95 wasn't allowed to use C++, including the RichEdit windows control, which had to use C for OLE code - not many other codebases could boast about that - no one signs up for that sort of masochism by choice.