>I sought with interest information about a CLR based language called F# (because it sounded like a name derived from Fox...)
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>F# looks like a research language and, while the current result is disappointing, it is encouraging that MS is considering approaches other than creating 100% OOP languages. Maybe they can create a language that, like VFP, is OO yet has some commands and functions. That would be nice.
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>I don't lose hope.

F# is a reasearch project by just a couple of people in the Microsoft Research group completely independent of the Developer Division which provides Visual Studio and the .NET languages C++, C#, and VB .NET. There are no plans announced to create another .NET language for Visual Studio, and the F# research experiment project has no relation to future versions of Visual Studio and .NET languages provide as a product from Microsoft. The group I'm in called VS Data is responsible for influencing the existing .NET languages, mainly VB .NET and C#, as well as the core .NET Framework classes to add VFP-like data and data functionality in general. So you should expect to see the existing .NET languages evolve rather than new .NET languages be added to the Microsoft developer tools suite.