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

C Omega (X#) is a research project only just like F#, and there are no plans to formalize those research efforts into formal .NET languages with Visual Studio. What is going on is that the VB and C# teams are looking at C Omega, VFP, and other languages as a reference for enhancing VB and C# in the future, especially in the area of data-centric programming.