I vote for "obtuse." LINQ is something developed by Erik Meijer at Microsoft Research, and major props to him for it. Lambda expressions, on the other hand, a

I vote for "obtuse." LINQ is something developed by Erik Meijer at Microsoft Research, and major props to him for it. Lambda expressions, on the other hand, are a core construct in functional programming. It's great that Microsoft has been adding functional programming features (such as Lambdas, and the F# language) into the .NET Framework-- but if the Java world adds Lambdas, that doesn't mean they are copying Microsoft, it just means that they are drawing on some of the same sources of inspiration that Microsoft is.