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Re:Why C# is the best language for mobile development by SideburnsOfDoom on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @04:14PM (#4999353)
> I find LINQ to have been a horrendous misstep ... grows it becomes a terrible cancer -- everything becomes an amorphous blob of stuff, unintuitive, performance-disaster LINQ filters

I couldn't agree less. Any language construct can be abused, but LINQ is not particularly susceptible to abuse, unless you try very hard.

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Re:Why C# is the best language for mobile development by corresation on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @04:24PM (#4999402)
LINQ is from the outset designed for abuse, and you don't have to try hard whatsoever.
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Re:Why C# is the best language for mobile development by SideburnsOfDoom on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @04:33PM (#4999446)
That hasn't been my experience, I'm glad to say. And given the amount of c# code I've worked on already, it's unlikely to ever be.
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