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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Lambda expressions? LINQ?
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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.

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