>>>>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.
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>>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.
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>Of course. I said "The closest thing to VFP in the Microsoft Research language space". 8-)
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>By the way, we have a two day VFP event here in Buenos Aires this Friday and Saturday. Would we be able to announce something? It would be great timing!

You could announce that there will be free soft drinks for everybody.

They could appreciate that.

Wait a minute did you mean announce something that would come from Ken Levy in regard to the june newsletter? <g>