>Ken Levy posted sometime ago that F# was not VFP and was only a research language.

Absolutely. F# is a variant of Ocaml, a functional language, more similar to Lisp (not very much, but maybe it is the closer thing most people know).

The closest thing to VFP in the Microsoft Research language space could be C Omega, which joined the X# (or Xen) project and Polyphonic C#, and it is a C# extension to handle XML Data into the language constructs.

You can read more at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnexxml/html/xml01142005.asp

But, of course, don't expect to see an xBase impementation. 8-)

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