You are explaining it a bit wrong. C# provides delegates (Action, Func etc.), lambda expressions, expression trees, anonymous functions, anonymous types, extens

You are explaining it a bit wrong. C# provides delegates (Action, Func etc.), lambda expressions, expression trees, anonymous functions, anonymous types, extensions methods. Those features make it a functional language and make succinct monads possible. LINQ happens to be one of those monads, but you can implement yours (e.g. rename Select to map etc.).