>>Craig, while JB is incorrect and your bet would be right (that the developers knew about Fox)....the ACTUAL influence of VFP over LINQ is somewhat debatable..
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>So they involved the fox team, I was wrong on that regard; however, my original assertion stands, that linQ is no where near the select that VFP used, with anonymous types, lambdas and method chaining.

I object the idea that Linq is nowhere near the VFP if you meant VFP is better.
I would agree if you meant it is no where near because Linq is much better than VFP.

IMHO it is apples to oranges. You can only compare IQueryable part of Linq a bit and even there Linq is better.
Cetin