[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > sturlamolden: >> No, because Python already has list comprehensions and we don't need the XML >> buzzword.< > > LINQ is more than buzzwords. Python misses several of those features. > So maybe for once the Python crowd may recognize such C# feature as > much better than things present in Python. > Said that, I presume Python will go on as usual, and LINQ-like > capabilities will not be integrated in Python. In the meantime where I > live lot of people will keep using C# instead of Python and CLisp, > natural selection at work indeed. > > Bye, > bearophile
LOL, I just read that and thought - Ok this sounds serious I'd better go find out what this LINQ business is all about so I googled.. and ended up on MSDN where there's impressive sounding talk about how we need a way to query databases and XML files with a unified syntax like we do for for standard datatypes like files and arrays. Well yes,that makes sense I think and proceed to look at their example code, curious as to what this new paradigm looks like: using System; using System.Linq; using System.Collections.Generic; class app { static void Main() { string[] names = { "Burke", "Connor", "Frank", "Everett", "Albert", "George", "Harris", "David" }; IEnumerable<string> query = from s in names where s.Length == 5 orderby s select s.ToUpper(); foreach (string item in query) Console.WriteLine(item); } } ROTFLMAO! Wow, what progress they're making! Quick guys let's jump on before we get left behind - we dont want to miss out on this exciting and mysterious 'foreach' construct or this strange and exotic sounding 'IEnumerable query' thing. To think that python might someday reach such lofty heights where we'll be able to simply write... names = ["Burke", "Connor", "Frank", "Everett", "Albert", "George", "Harris", "David"] result = [each.upper() for each in names if len(each) == 5] result.sort() for each in result: print each Yes clearly 'the Python crowd' must admit LINQ is 'much better', I'm sold, in fact off to download my "Free, but limited editions of Visual Studio 2005 for a single programming language supported by .NET" right away! OK so maybe I'm being naive here but it looks to me like this new paradigm's big idea is to use a python + SQL type syntax to access data in random objects. Big whoop. It's not that difficult to write a generators that wraps XML files and databases is it? What am I missing here? Roger Heathcote. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list