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9.14.2005
LINQ is freaking genius! Permanent link to this post with (1 comments )

Sitting in Hall C+D watching Bono of the programming world Mr. Anders Hejlsberg demoing LINQ. It's feaking genius. A unified object oriented query syntax for accesing objects, sql and xml. It's O/R mapping on drugs, it's even have type checking on compiling and intellisense in your queries.

Watch these source samples slides on xml - before:


After:


If you're not doing a standing ovation right now - you don't have a clue on what this is (or you've might already done that)!

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...or you're using a scripting language where this kind of stream oriented syntax for queries and filtering is already the norm.

The syntactic sugar is nice - it's whether this is optimized and pushes the work to the right layer (DB or app server) that is the interesting part of Linq - which, granted, looks like a really cool enhancement for .NET.
 
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