>>>>>>the Entity Framework is pure evil in its current state.
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>>>>>>Yeah. And L2SQL never did and presumably now cannot hope to work with SSCE or any non-MS database.
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>>>>>>BTW, have you checked out Etecnologica? Their latest compiler boasts textmerge, meaning it should be approaching a viable web server option. Theoretically it shouldn't be so tough to create a migration path from WW scripts to NET.
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>>>>>Just my guess but I bet it will be a cold day in hell before Rick does more than check out Etecnologica.
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>>>>Why?
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>>>I know I am being presumptuous by speaking for him. My thinking was this.
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>>>1. Rick is a tool maker, not a tool user.
>>>2. He seems to like things done cleanly, not kludges.
>>>3. He moved on from FoxPro years ago. He was among the first among us to embrace .NET.
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>>So you consider Etechnologia's stuff to be a 'kludge?'
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>That was not the best word I could have chosen. It may in fact be technically elegant. But the last thing anyone but diehards need is a way to keep FoxPro alive. It's way past time to move on.

It's not Fox. Its a data centric oriented .net language.