1989 had Microsoft C.

From: Jeff_Relf (Me_at_Privacy.NET)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: 2 Dec 2004 00:36:51 GMT

Hi kai, Visual Studio 97 is apparently the one that had all the langues,
including FoxPro, I never used that, VC6 alone was called MS DevStudio.

Re: Microsoft's IDE for Win 2.0 in 1989, You asked: <<
  And just out of curiosity - what would that have been - MASM? :)
  I wasn't really on MS products ( unless you count Apple BASIC ) then.
  I was spending my days between Mac, OS/2 and my univeristy's VAX. >>

Apple BASIC was a MS product, I do believe.

1989 had Microsoft C ( now called Microsoft Visual C++ ).
_ Programming Windows _ By Charles Petzold was a big deal back then.
386s ( ¿ 32 bit VMs ) were the thing to have.
I wasn't coding for Win 2.0 long though,
as I recall converting my code to Win 3.0 in 1990,
it was a radical change, as I recall.
At this time I was working under a contract for Boeing,
doing computer assisted training for Pilots,
mechanics and the DoD ( Desert Shield ).

Microsoft C 6.0 came out in 1990 : <<
  Still a DOS box application
  [ but very much an IDE, I say, debugger used a seperate monitor ],
  it now contains a basic IDE in which
  F1 will bring up keyword and compiler error help.
  This seems a fundamental improvement at the time.
  This IDE, the " Programmer's Work Bench " suffers from
  the need for users to learn its macro API
  before the TAB key actually inserts a tab,
  rather than acting as a cursor.
  " Programmer's Whipping Bench " becomes it's semi-affectionate name >>
  __ http://www.iseran.com/Win32/FAQ/history.html
  
I've never used tabs in my source code, never.
And I've always made it a point to kill tabs wherever I found them.
I've never liked a lot of whitespace,
due to numerous complaints, my X.CPP has more whitespace now:
  http://www.Cotse.NET/users/jeffrelf/X.CPP
  
I recall writing a lot of those IDE-macros
( as well as a rule-based thing similar to makefiles ),
that was how you tweaked the IDE back then.

Visual C++ 1.0 came out in 1993 and had printed documentation,
boy, those days are gone. That was the same year that
I started working under contract for the ABA ( the bankers ),
I ported a FORTRAN program running on an IBM mainframe to C/Win_3.0,
and I've been working for them ever since.

The port to Win95 was also a big deal, as I recall,
...it was Win32S on Win3.1 before that.

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