Are there any connections between Haskell and LINQ?

Question

I wrote some queries in C# using LINQ. After a while, I started using Haskell a little bit, which is a functional programming language (a not so popular one), and for me it

Answer 1

Also could LINQ be considered functional programming?

LINQ implies a functional style in that it resembles, for instance, a SQL select, which is read-only in principle. However, because the LINQ clauses in .NET are implemented by plain-old CLR routines, there is nothing to prevent LINQ expressions from modifying state.

Haskell, on the other hand, is a "pure" functional language, so expressions cannot modify global state. Although it is possible to perform IO and graphics operations, these are carried out using a very different idiom from anything in .NET — including F#, which lets you drop into a procedural style more or less transparently.