ASP.NET MVC4 also has Linq so you can do stuff like Class.All(x => x.attribute == value).ForEach(foo => foo.method()) Django has similar functionality through

ASP.NET MVC4 also has Linq so you can do stuff like Class.All(x => x.attribute == value).ForEach(foo => foo.method()) Django has similar functionality through Q and F expressions. Most ORMs have this functionality of specific language constructs to allow complex queries to be expressed without writing SQL, just with slightly different semantics.