>>>>>>>>the Entity Framework is pure evil in its current state.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Yeah. And L2SQL never did and presumably now cannot hope to work with SSCE or any non-MS database.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>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?
>>>>>
>>>>>I know I am being presumptuous by speaking for him. My thinking was this.
>>>>>
>>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>So you consider Etechnologia's stuff to be a 'kludge?'
>>>
>>>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.
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>>It's not Fox. Its a data centric oriented .net language.
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>Isn't it FoxPro code that it compiles?

WHO CARES!

If the guys from etecnologia had replace all the function and command names perhaps you would have said. "Hey guys look at that new cool language in the making for .net"

If an enterprise can come up with a .net language that lets me do an app faster and easier than any other .net language I will check it out. Even if VB or C# seems to be the norm I don't care. Just give me a language that will have me make more money and faster and I'll use it.

I'll be more than happy to let the others use the more cryptic languages. Hey if it's the way they want to do it. And you know what I won't even try to convince them to use this new better language. or better environment or better framework or whatever.

Some enterprises really seem to think that developers should suffer while making apps. If there are alternatives why not use those?