That's an interesting copyright question: who knows? <s>

For me, though, it's the complete package that makes VFP so productive. It's not a small job. It is doable, though.

>Hi Hank
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>>Actually, Cobol for .Net is available. http://www.netcobol.com/products/windows/netcobol.html is just one of them. There is apparently a Pascal version in development: http://www.tmt.com/net.htm. And of course there is Delphi: http://www.borland.com/us/products/delphi/index.html
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>Oh, so I guess it is upto the Open Source community to develop such a CLR thing, if MS won't want to do it. Creating a just compiler in OSS is valid in copyright terms?