By it's nature, .Net is language independent....VB, C#, Cobol, etc all implement the CLR in their own way and compile down to the same IL. LINQ is implemented in .Net assemblies...thus your language only needs to implement this.

The ideas of how to mix data and language comes directly from Fox. LINQ has taken this idea and expanded on it.

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>That seems hard to believe, Craig, unless it's meant in the very "wide" sense that VFP is the only MS programming product "doing data" so LINQ is modelled on that. But that is somewhat disingenuous, isn't it?
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>I read the first Blog" in a list I found and the guy defined the acronym for "LINQ" as "Language Independent QUery". Not exactly inspiring confidence.
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>>>I don't think that this is a VFP-inspired addition. The approach is notably different, and although one can find some similitudes in the idea, it can also be found in other places.