For me, LINQ is fundamentally list comprehensions on steroids. Way better than Pythons, about the same as using list functions in Haskell or F#, Java's finally

For me, LINQ is fundamentally list comprehensions on steroids. Way better than Pythons, about the same as using list functions in Haskell or F#, Java's finally caught up with its stream library. The LINQ to SQL stuff annoys me, because while it works, it's a painful disaster to implement yourself against your own data stores. Believe me, I've tried.