>>Hi, Terry.
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>>>Is VFP 8 really X#? Great! It still seems to have all the legacy goodies we have come to expect.
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>>Not at all. X# is a rumor -not confirmed by MS yet as far as I know- about a new programming language in the works. This is supossed to be a functional language, what means that it has control structures oriented to act over data (in this case, XML data).
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>>The articles are based on speculation or non-official comments from different people. It sounds promising, but there's nothing we could expect a release for some time.
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>>VFP 8.0 is promised to be released very soon.
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>>Hope this clarifies some points,
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>I was only joking about it being VFP8, although...

Although, it would be incredibly amusing for MS to trumpet the latest and greatest new language, call it X#, and have it be VFP8 boxed differently.