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JonoW on April 12, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows 8 App Store Screens Leaked

LINQ is innovative because it brings a generic query language as a first-class citizen in the language. I.e. LINQ is more than just a library as they added syntax constructs for it.

beagle3 on April 12, 2011 [–]

Innovative implies new.

Other languages (LISP, APL, in many senses even Python) had this a long time ago.

The fact that they had to add syntax is because C# isn't sufficiently flexible without it. It does not imply any form or manner of innovation.

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