IMO, Microsoft got it right way back when with LINQ syntax. They did it for a different reason (to make things easier to convert to a sequence of plain, old fas

IMO, Microsoft got it right way back when with LINQ syntax. They did it for a different reason (to make things easier to convert to a sequence of plain, old fashioned method invocations), but the idea was the right one. For those who don't know, in a LINQ query you first specify the data source(s) and joins, then your filtering logic, then grouping and ordering, and then your projections, including projections into objects and anonymous structs. That's just the way it oughtta have been from the start. As a bonus, it also simplifies things like autocomplete, because you know the data sources up front.