I can't believe FoxPro was missed. It was quite successful as a competitor to dBase and Access for about 15-20 years. After Microsoft acquired it in 1992 it became part of Visual Studio for about 12 years starting with Visual Studio 97. I wish there was something like that now, a programming environment where SQL is embedded into the language.
How embedded are you thinking? C# has LINQ for example. Is that not embedded enough? What about in-memory SQL databases for JavaScript? I don't know anything about FoxPro, so I'm trying to understand what you mean by "embedded into the language" in this case. (You didn't mention what language, just the VS IDE.)
Came here to say the same thing. And to my recollection, some parts of FoxPro were rolled into Access after MS bought them (maybe the query engine, but not the front-end or the language?)... so I was expecting to see the Access line take over from FoxPro back in the early 90's.
