Dotnet is proving successful because it does adhere to current trends. Did you read Anders Helberg's comments about Dotnet and VFP? Did you read it closely, or just see the words Visual Foxpro and jump for joy at the mere mention? His comments were something to the effect of VFP not functioning the same way as far more popular languages, such as C# and Java.What he effectively said was that VFP wasn't part of the CLR direction. You're saying this is why VFP should not be made part of the CLR?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
