>>I found this interesting comment by Beth Massi as she discusses the history of Visual Studio in her most recent blog entry:
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>>"I came from a different background (dbase), and not a Microsoft product until 1990 (they bought FoxPro). Always a data-based programmer I didn’t have much experience with C++ back then, and only a tiny bit of Visual Basic. (Why would I, VFP had LINQ and OOP in 1995 ;-))"
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>>Who knew at that time that VFP was foreshadowing things to come over 10 years later. Oh wait, if I'm not mistaken, C# 4.0 is going to be a "dynamic language" too. I'm not sure what that means, but somehow I get the feeling VFP was there already.
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>>What's old is new again.
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>Hmm that first or this first wouldn't matter. We all learn from experiences and mistakes, so would MS. Fox was there maybe but the real power came from functional languages AFAIK.
>Cetin

Well in my view, it does matter "that first or this first". We're talking about a time period that's over a decade with regards to .NET getting LINQ. I'm gald to hear that LINQ in .NET is far and above what VFP did, but as I said in another post, it damed well better be otherwise it would not reflect well on MS.