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It would be interesting to get that statement, because .NET original plan was to be what WinRT is.

A improvement over the COM runtime with better tooling, but then they pivoted the idea with J++, and had to reboot it with .NET for the reasons we all know.

https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/MSDNBlogsFS/p...

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The article I read years ago. I could not find that article, I found a similar one.

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/blogs/desmond-file/2007/03/...

Thing is, LINQ came into .NET via Cω and Erik Meyer's work, hence why I was curious about Anders Hejlsberg making such kind of statements.

"Confessions of a Used Programming Language SalesmanGetting the Masses Hooked on Haskell"

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.72...

The interesting thing is that the following sentence is said years after it was decided to eliminate vfp.

"It's my hope that in five to 10 years, programming languages simply will have queries as a concept"

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