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From: "Steve D" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net>
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> wrote in message 
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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.
>

Oh, so you are familiar with LINQ and find that you cannot make queries that 
are readable?
My experience is not the same.

Or are you passing judgment without knowledge in the same way that most 
people do when I argue for using Ada?

Regards,
Steve

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