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Some trivia for you - but in VC 1.51 math.
The math function tan() flip the values between -180 and 180 degrees of the y axis. I found this during unit testing of my existing graphing library using the latest compiler/IDE from MS.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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I think there is/was a tan2 function that correctly dealt with the signs of the two arguments, x and y.
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None of them in use, because they where DOS when I started.
E.g. ashton tate framework iii. RIP 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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For me it was Borland Turbo Pascal & C++, learn to code on those two. Still have the installer floppies (but no floppy drive!,  well a USB but...)
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I used Turbo Pascal, then Turbo Prolog. Loved Brief back then. Used dBase ][, its successors and then Paradox. It's too bad that Corel stopped supporting Paradox. For many applications it was superior to Access and certainly faster. Paradox's developers were geniuses at making important small things work -- for example, you could could copy/paste a comma-formatted number into a number field and Paradox would clean up the string and convert it to a number without choking. You could enter today's date in a date field by pressing the space bar 3x. Nice!
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Norton Commander was ok, now most of that functionality is in FAR Manager, I use it all the time.
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To be fair, nothing you've named ever got a Windows version (?), so given that nobody these days works with DOS...it's only fair they'd no longer be used.
I'm looking at my "old utils" folder (which is in OneDrive, so it gets synched automatically across all my systems)...there's plenty of utilities that go back to my DOS days, but I've probably not fired up any of them in years, even once.
The oldest file is ARJ.EXE (1993), followed by AMCAP100.EXE (1998). I actually use that one every once in a while, to test whether a webcam's drivers work. But it looks like I have none of the DOS utilities from the 80s anymore.
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Samna / AmiPro / Lotus Word Pro was originally Win 3.0, it was one of the first wysiwyg word processors, sadly squashed by the Office behemoth.
XTree had several Windows versions, including a patch which made it work on Win95, but was bought by Symantec and buried (while still just about alive).
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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QuickC - made the switch-over from FORTRAN quite pleasant.
A bunch of .COM files I created - and for that matter, all the stuff that used the ROM BIOS went belly up.
Well, the versions change, but at least you can still get ROGUE !
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Dito - I was wondering if someone would mention it. I created a complete DOS windowing system using QuickC.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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Command Prompt 
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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Ah!! I was gonna say that!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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The closest I can come to is an in-house debugging tool I wrote originally back in 2000. It's still going strong, and is in the process of getting some enhancements even today.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Good question!  I've been at this 20 years and have a few unpopular apps:
0: VB6 (I still maintain quite a few legacy applications that I started over 20 years ago)
1: MS Access (lite versions of our software still use Jet 4.0)
2: MS Photo Editor
3: Many of my own utility apps that I use every day have roots back to the early days
While I'll certainly get thrashed for still using VB6 and Access, let me just say that I can't even begin to calculate the ROI I've gotten on the $180 VS6 suite I bought at uni back in '98! There are plans to migrate it all in the next year or so when my business partner and I can reach an agreement on the target environment. I'm pushing for desktop, she is insisting on web...so probably doing web. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Me too. Still using VB6 and supporting legacy apps.
Started with VB1.0 and went through all of the versions up to VB6.
The ROI IS truly incredible.
Converting to C#. While I heard others in this forum talk about how "Verbose" VB6 is compared to C#, I could not disagree more.
In the end however, it is all just syntax. I believe it is the "B" (for Basic) in the name that causes the academics, and academic taught programmers ("developers" according to them) to hate VB6.
Finally, I need to point out that Bill Gates and Microsoft's first product wad GW-Basic. And I started out on Apple Basic.
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Slow Eddie wrote: In the end however, it is all just syntax
 My thoughts exactly!
I think you are mostly correct about the contempt 'real programmers' have for VB of any flavor. Haters will hate...I will laugh all the way to the bank! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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NotePad is still going strong.
Brent
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I think there's only one application I've used on a daily basis for about twenty years now... Winamp! 
It still kicks (llama's) ass
I'm still on v5.666 though (you think that version is a coincidence?), didn't recently bother to upgrade to the new "leaked" 5.8.
And hell yes it's a productivity tool!
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Sander Rossel wrote: I think there's only one application I've used on a daily basis for about twenty years now... Winamp!
+1
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Brief I remember and loved.
Still use VB 6.0 on occasion for some legacy stuff for multiple phone line recordings for jails and such written more years ago than I want to think about BUT - still going. (They are still running NT server since it was the last server that supported the multi-line phone cards they use).
I remember buying MS FORTRAN, and a PL/1 compiler on floppy - both ran by swapping floppies like crazy when compiling.
Turbo Pascal 1.0 saw a LOT of use when I was contracting to the Army.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Lap link! Well I still have a cable that I use occasionally!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Gawd! I'd forgotten that one.
Copying 32MB HDD over a RS232 link ... I still get flashbacks ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yep. I shudder to think of how many MB I copied using that program. But it was very good at what it did.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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