Re:Ask HN: What's the best API you've worked with?
by macando on Thursday July 11, 2019 @05:21PM
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LINQ by Microsoft. It's expressive, elegant and very useful when dealing with all types of data. In addition, it pushed many OO programmers closer to functional languages.
> "...the design of LINQ query comprehensions was heavily influenced by the design of Haskell. Haskell expert Erik Meijer was on the C# language design committee when we designed LINQ; his insights were very valuable".
> "...the design of LINQ query comprehensions was heavily influenced by the design of Haskell. Haskell expert Erik Meijer was on the C# language design committee when we designed LINQ; his insights were very valuable".