The weird SQL-ish query syntax is an abomination. But using the LINQ extension methods, making use of lambdas as you say, is gold. Most of it boils down to pla

The weird SQL-ish query syntax is an abomination. But using the LINQ extension methods, making use of lambdas as you say, is gold. Most of it boils down to plain old functional map/fold/filter/zip constructs under different names.