Am I missing something about LINQ?

Question

I seem to be missing something about LINQ. To me, it looks like it\'s taking some of the elements of SQL that I like the least and moving them into the C# language and usin

Answer 1

Because linq is really monads in sql clothing, I'm using it on a project to make asynchronous web requests with the continuation monad, and it's proving to work really well!

Check out these articles: http://www.aboutcode.net/2008/01/14/Async+WebRequest+Using+LINQ+Syntax.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/wesdyer/archive/2008/01/11/the-marvels-of-monads.aspx

From the first article:

    var requests = new[] 
    {
        WebRequest.Create("http://www.google.com/"),
        WebRequest.Create("http://www.yahoo.com/"),
        WebRequest.Create("http://channel9.msdn.com/")
    };

    var pages = from request in requests
                select
                    from response in request.GetResponseAsync()
                    let stream = response.GetResponseStream()
                    from html in stream.ReadToEndAsync()
                    select new { html, response };

    foreach (var page in pages)
    {
        page(d =>
        {
            Console.WriteLine(d.response.ResponseUri.ToString());
            Console.WriteLine(d.html.Substring(0, 40));
            Console.WriteLine();
        });
    }