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  1. Jun 5th, 2006, 03:48 PM #1
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    Resolved [RESOLVED] What are most retail software programs written in?

    What are most retail software programs written in? Like the accounting, organizer/planner, home office, inventory software programs you buy online or at Office Supply stores.
    Just curious.
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  2. Jun 5th, 2006, 07:08 PM #2
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    Re: What are most retail software programs written in?

    I would expect that most are written in either C or C++, but you are finding programs written in VB. I have no idea of the breakdown by percentage.
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    Re: What are most retail software programs written in?

    Lots of them are combination of both VB and C++.
    VB is taking care of GUI and C++ of background (not to be confused with back end) processing for speed and efficiency.
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    Re: What are most retail software programs written in?

    Sometimes it is easy to tell what software/language something may be written in, especially in the case of Visual Studio 6 and Developer 2000 just by looking at the button and textbox styles.

    In the case of Microsoft, a lot of enterprise level software has been written in VC++.
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    Re: What are most retail software programs written in?

    Quote Originally Posted by kpearson
    What are most retail software programs written in? Like the accounting, organizer/planner, home office, inventory software programs you buy online or at Office Supply stores.
    Just curious.
    For the types of programs you mention here I would say that VB is probably the language of choice.

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  7. Jun 6th, 2006, 08:32 AM #6
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    Re: What are most retail software programs written in?

    Thanks for the answers. That was what I was looking for.
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