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		kenko on Nov 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse C# progr... Linq, which was inspired by ... Haskell! Would it be irresponsible to speculate that this article is directly responsible for the inclusion of Linq in C#? It would be irresponsible not to speculate!

pjmlp on Nov 25, 2012 [–]

LINQ was introduced by Erik Meijer, an Haskell researcher working on .NET team.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/emeijer/papers...

rjzzleep on Nov 26, 2012 | [–]

a true gem, thanks for this. where did you find out about this paper?

pjmlp on Nov 26, 2012 | | [–]

I read a lot research papers, specially related to compiler design.

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