>>The only thing that has any hint of validity is the removal from .NET, which the community did want. But that was because it would have to change from a dynamic language to a static language, which was extremely problematic. At the time, M$ in its infinite wisdom, looked down on the dynamic languages. Now what are they developing? The DLR.
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>DLR is very important development in NET world. Eventually, they will be abe to make something as good as Fox. {g}
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>Mark my words; In 10 years or so, NET will have almost everything you have (&love) in FoxPro today.
>It will not be called Fox and it will be part of multiple products but it will be all there one way or another.
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>Or... once uppon a time little brown Fox came to big MS Padre asking for some more marketing;
>... Ok, I can sure market you much better, but I will have to kill you first!
>(And in fact you have no choice on the matter.)
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>And there goes butcher knife. After being slaughtered, FoxPro meat will be carefully processed and sold slowly peace by peace, pretty simillar to a cow being sold as t-bone steaks, file mignon, burger meat, soup meat etc. This is enough stuff to get M$ through minimum 2-3 major NET versions with hundreds of thousands MSDN subscribtions being sold every year.
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>Using System.FoxProMeat.Linq 
>Using System.FoxProMeat.Steaks
>Using System.FoxProMeat.Liver
>.etc
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>And of course (as promised {g}) there will be strong marketing push for it. We will watch NET crowds clapping/cheering in disbelief while dicovering wanders of macro-substitution, data-driven code execution, local cursor engines, easy data manipulation etc.
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>Keynote Presentation - Year 2016
>(Macro subs in VB.NET...)
>Wow!!! Did you see that ??! Awesome, isn't it ?!
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>Keynote Year 2018
>(Local Cursor Engine in NET)
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>OMG! OMG! OMG!!!
>I cannot believe what I see!
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>And so for;
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>Steaks & Burgers will be all beautifully presented with plenty of carrots, shrimps, rice, broccolly and whatever else goes around.
>Very few people (some old weirdoes {g} ) will have kind of funny feeling while trying to chew it, but NET youngsters worldwide will be for sure very happy & content swallowing it all.
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>Bon Apetit :))

Hey, hey! Quit with the food analogies already. I haven't had breakfast, yet. Now I'm really hungry. <g>

Yes, let's back up forty paces and in 10 years we'll be back where we started. There are, of course, nice things in .NET, but in many ways it was a step backwards.