From that I can only conclude that Linq is supplying a feature for VB.net and C# that VFP has had all along.The usual rebuttal is that it allows queries against just about any imaginable data source apart from a database, which VFP has never had. But you're right: in-memory querying and processing are things we took for granted since at least FP2.0. There's a bit of history on this topic... suffice to say that I'm just delighted to see gurus like Anders H promoting the feature as a positive for NET and even mentioning FP by name as an example. Things just keep looking better and better. ;-)
"... 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
