Would not surprise me with Ken Levy's strong background in XML and constants references / comparisions to Visual FoxPro. Why not?

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci875142,00.html

While some believe Microsoft's Visual FoxPro -- a relational database with an 
object-oriented programming environment -- can already do much of what a new 
programming language would do, Schmelzer said Microsoft may want to use a new 
language as a way to expand its developer base. 

"The question is, is Microsoft going after a new developer audience, and do they 
want to turn some business analysts into XML developers? FoxPro would be great for
some of this," said Schmelzer, "but there's a limited universe of [FoxPro 
developers], and maybe an X# would be embedded with all its products." 

Also, see

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci875257,00.html