LINQ in Action - THE LINQ book

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• Beyond Dynamic Languages

  Everywhere I turn, all I read about is dynamic languages. Apparently, there is a small yet growing contingent of programmers that think dynamic is the only way to go. These guys are frustrated with the shackles of static type systems that force them to write clean code. And apparently, there is also a small and growing contingent of media types that think “hey, there’s a buzzword I haven’t heard before, let’s use it until we wear it out.” And they have. Believe me, its paper thin and about to be Read More... Posted Friday, April 28, 2006 9:16 AM from The Wayward WebLog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Humor, Code, Language

• YODA the Programming Language

  Now that LINQ is out the door, so to speak, I can start focusing my efforts on the next next technology here at Microsoft. Ever since I joined up with the C# team nearly two years ago I’ve been frustrated by my inability to wax poetic about all the goodness we were working on. I was sworn to secrecy. Mum was the word. Perhaps if you were paying attention to the work in C# 2.0 and C-Omega, you may have guessed what was to come. Looking back, it’s easy enough to recognize it in the design of Generics, Read More... Posted Sunday, October 09, 2005 10:34 PM from The Wayward WebLog | (Comments Off) Filed under: LINQ, Humor, PDC, Language

• What the World is saying about LINQ

  “LINQ is totally awesome. It’s like this thing that you use to condense your entire application into one line of demo code. Sweet!” - Stanley Morgan “LINQ is divine but DLINQ is a delinquent. It gives programmers too much power and makes programming against data way too easy. Is nothing sacred anymore?” – Ned Flanders “Lambdas are old school. LISP had these decades ago. If all you want to do is be a sheep then go right ahead. I prefer ACME.” – Wyle E Coyote “I can’t remember what they are called, Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 21, 2005 6:07 PM from The Wayward WebLog | (Comments Off) Filed under: LINQ, Humor, Code, Object Relational, PDC, Data, Language