On Jul 22, 2010, at 2:46 AM, Allen wrote:
> I think it's about money and the sales of sql server. There was no good
> reason not to have vfp in the clr
Actually, I believe that there were. Some of the language differences,
such as dynamic typing and late binding, were not compatible with the CLR. Fox
would have been much better suited for the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime),
which allows dynamic languages such as IronPython and IronRuby to run in .Net.
Problem was, however, that the DLR didn't exist back then, and there were
people in Microsoft who were convinced that a DLR would never work.
-- Ed Leafe
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