{"id":1503,"date":"2007-07-08T22:44:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T02:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/08\/the-evolution-of-linq-and-its-impact-on-the-design-of-c\/"},"modified":"2007-07-08T22:45:10","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T02:45:10","slug":"evolution-of-linq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/08\/evolution-of-linq\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of LINQ and Its Impact on the Design of C#"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/msdnmag\/issues\/07\/06\/CSharp30\/default.aspx?loc=&amp;print=true\">Anson Horton<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/lambda-the-ultimate.org\/node\/2333\">Lambda<\/a>):\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/msdnmag\/issues\/07\/06\/CSharp30\/default.aspx?loc=&amp;print=true\">\r\n<p>\r\nSeveral years ago, Anders Hejlsberg (chief designer of C#) and Peter Golde thought of extending C# to better integrate data querying. Peter, who was the C# compiler development lead at the time, was investigating the possibility of making the C# compiler extensible, specifically to support add-ins that could verify the syntax of domain-specific languages like SQL. Anders, on the other hand, was conceiving a deeper, more specific level of integration. He was thinking about a set of &ldquo;sequence operators&rdquo; that would operate on any collection that implemented IEnumerable, as well as remote queries for types that implemented IQueryable.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anson Horton (via Lambda): Several years ago, Anders Hejlsberg (chief designer of C#) and Peter Golde thought of extending C# to better integrate data querying. Peter, who was the C# compiler development lead at the time, was investigating the possibility of making the C# compiler extensible, specifically to support add-ins that could verify the syntax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}