>>VFP developers vs. the number of developers of other development languages like VB and C.<
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>I wondered about this as well, but was J++ so popular that they made it part of .NET with J#? Perhaps it was, I just wouldn't have thought it was.
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>Mel Cummings

To be fair J++ is much easier to port to .NET. Windows Forms in .NET are inspired by Visual J++ 6.0 and its WFC (Windows Foundation Classes).