>>>You may be correct, but what are you basing that on? Are you just describing your belief system or have you actually investigated?
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>It's my opinion. I don't want to waste my time on an effort that has zero benefit for me. I will be pleasantly surprised if it does; however, to what end? Its still gonna be vfp and virtually noone is learning it today, unless they have to maintain a legacy app.

Yeah, I think it's real value will be in helping people move an existing VFP app. into .NET w/o a full rewrite, not so much as a standalone language. Unfortunately, I think the level of compatibility they need to have to make this possible is going to be difficult for them to achieve. So far their effort seems to be all over the board - they appear to jump from one piece of the project to another (I'm guessing based on whatever interests them the most). But (to me) they're in a bit of a bind - it's an all or nothing thing. Even 80% compatibilty means most people won't even consider using it (or they look at it, realize that even at 80% they still need to make a huge number of changes to get things working and pass on the idea).

As a standalone language I think it's interesting - in the same way something like IronPython is interesting. I might look at it but I honestly wouldn't spend a huge amount of time learning it because there just aren't that many people using it.