>Bhavbhuti,
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>I've also wondered why COBOL, with its data centric behavior, could be ported to .NET and VFP, with its data centric behavior, "couldn't".

It's a matter of what you are willing to give up. Do you want to lose the tight data binding in VFP?

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>I've also wondered why EVERY PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE known to man has been ported to .NET EXCEPT VFP.

SNOBOL? PL/1? Want me to name others?

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>When I see interpreted languages such as Forth, Lisp, Jscript (Javascript) being ported to .NET or data centric languages like COBOL or PHP (MySQL), I have to scratch my head and wonder ...

It has nothing to do with interpreted/compiled.


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>Malcolm