On Sep 1, 2009, at 19:31 , Laxmi Narsimha Rao Oruganti wrote:
LINQ is a hard one to push as LINQ again ties back to Microsoft only (single vendor). As a Microsoft employee I am super excited about LINQ, but as standards advocate LINQ is not the right one. Unless Microsoft puts some effort in standardizing the LINQ and promotes few other vendors go for it (much like ODBC), I would not vouch for it in web standards. On the other hand, I have heard of efforts in having LINQ like stuff in Java.
I don't have an agenda to push for LINQ, but I don't think that the reasons you quote eliminate it as an option — many successful standards started off as a single vendor solution and were later submitted for consideration by a standards group. I guess what I'm saying is: since you don't like the SQL-based approach that is currently being explored, and since you have a wealth of research into better alternatives, why not look into contributing them?
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