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Re:Kotlin Is Better by pjmlp on Thursday May 18, 2017 @07:35AM (#14366400)
> Same goes e.g. for LINQ, which was influenced by SQL instead of LISP-like collection transformation functions.

This was an explicit decision to make functional programming more palatable to mainstream developers.

Have you read the paper from Erik Meijer?

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Re:Kotlin Is Better by btschaegg on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:13PM (#14370704)
It's pretty obvious that this was a conscious decision. And it makes a lot of sense too, if you think of Microsoft's target audience.

But still - if you're used to the functional "default" naming schema (which mostly comes from math, anyway), it's nontheless something that can be a bit irritating (especially since there's also the "inline SQL syntax" you could use alternatively).

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