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>>>>So maybe there were times when it wasn't explicitly dissed, but it was never properly marketed either. And still it survived 16 years so.
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>>>Just shows how GOOD a language it IS..... too bad MS in its greed had to deep-six it to force everyone over to their money-maker MS-SQL.
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>>>Things must be pretty screwed-up at MS if they had to pull off the FoxPro programmers to anchor up the rest of their crappy coded products (Vista, SQL 2008, the next version of Windows.....).
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>>And even there, I wonder how many times have these guys thrown the towel in and said "OK OK OK we'll do it your way".
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>Sad, isn't it???

Microsoft is a corporation. Its sole purpose is to make more money than yesterday. If that sometimes means writing some good code, the better.

From what I've read (from various sources), M$ has become an unbelievable semihierarchical labyrinth, ranking maybe with Vatican in its complexity... and the rules and internal struggle make just as much sense to an outsider as well. The other similarity is the reliance on the miracles (look... this even works... it's a miracle!).