From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: Lambda expressions? LINQ?
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:58:19 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2009-09-18T00:58:19-07:00 [thread overview]
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On Sep 16, 11:46 am, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org> wrote:
> Steve D wrote:
>
> > Using LINQ and the .NET framework I was able to query an XML document
> > for all elements with a given element name, select an attribute with a
> > specific name, split the content of the attribute (a comma separated
> > list of strings) into it's individual strings and return an array of
> > unique elements... in one line of source code. ... Wow!
>
> Sounds like a write-only language to me.
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
> "My dear Mrs. Hemoglobin, when I first saw you, I
> was so enamored with your beauty I ran to the basket,
> jumped in, went down to the city, and bought myself a
> wedding outfit."
> Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
> 111
No, no - it just looks like SQL! Very readable - even for non-SQLers.
It's been >15 years since I did /any/ DB work and I manage to follow
LINQ (in C# - a language I don't know) quite easily.
Cheers
-- Martin
p.s. some examples at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336758.aspx
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-16 2:23 Lambda expressions? LINQ? Steve D
2009-09-16 8:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-09-16 10:46 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-09-18 1:59 ` Steve D
2009-09-18 5:23 ` sjw
2009-09-19 2:33 ` Steve D
2009-09-19 6:50 ` Martin
2009-09-19 14:35 ` Brad Moore
2009-09-19 16:38 ` Martin
2009-09-18 13:42 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-09-18 15:45 ` Martin
2009-09-18 7:58 ` Martin [this message]
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