LINQ

Hey

What do you guys think of LINQ?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/linq/

I think it'll save me a shitload of time by making my SQL glue code so much smaller and easier.

I hear a lot of people raving about it, but I'm not impressed. I'll reserve opinion for a couple years, see how it pans out.

I'm curious how it's going to save you time with your glue code though. The verbosity looks similar to SQL. Did I miss something?

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Yes the query syntax is similar to SQL but the compiler will check the syntax as it's built into the language.

Also it uses attributes to map the CLR datatypes onto SQL types which will save on writing code to do those conversion manually.

Perhaps I'm not using the existing framework well enough as it stands, but it seems that just these two features will save me time and effort.

No reliance on current gen ORM cludgery which end up making data access worse FTW. LINQ is definitely a big step up from the current crop of turds which make it far more preferrable to write plain SQL.

It's like lights when on everywhere and someone started realizing that relations and sets are you know...relations and sets.

lol

code IS VALID YOU CAN USE PERL  IT IS EASY  25 34 furlongs.

I was reading my Scsh Reference Manual as I came across a snippet:

Who should I thank? My so-called ``colleagues,'' who laugh at me behind my back, all the while becoming famous on my work? My worthless graduate students, whose computer skills appear to be limited to downloading bitmaps off of netnews? My parents, who are still waiting for me to quit ``fooling around with computers,'' go to med school, and become a radiologist? My department chairman, a manager who gives one new insight into and sympathy for disgruntled postal workers?

My God, no one could blame me -- no one! -- if I went off the edge and just lost it completely one day. I couldn't get through the day as it is without the Prozac and Jack Daniels I keep on the shelf, behind my Tops-20 JSYS manuals. I start getting the shakes real bad around 10am, right before my advisor meetings. A 10 oz. Jack 'n Zac helps me get through the meetings without one of my students winding up with his severed head in a bowling-ball bag. They look at me funny; they think I twitch a lot. I'm not twitching. I'm controlling my impulse to snag my 9mm Sig-Sauer out from my day-pack and make a few strong points about the quality of undergraduate education in Amerika.

If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading this, I'd probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the last possible moment. But no one does, and no one will. So I can pretty much say exactly what I think.

Oh, yes, the acknowledgements. I think not. I did it. I did it all, by myself.

Olin Shivers
Cambridge
September 4, 1994

10 Name: Anonymous 2011-04-20 4:05

"white lawn"? WTF