>It would be great, if Visual FoxPro stuff which provides backward compatibility could be technically separated from newer and better version of Visual FoxPro and added to the package as separate DLL.
>So, if somebody wanted the backward compatibility then s/he could add this DLL to the project.
>More opinions?
>

Nick,

This has been discussed with teh MS folks many times. Their position is the same every time it comes up. There isn't much backwards compatibility stuff that can be removed. The product is tightly integrated inside and much of the commadns that are for backward compatibility have their code spread across many routines that are still used by newer commands.