When will we have LINQ in Java?

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5 pointsrohshall4 comments

Sincerely? I hope never. And I don't even like Java very much.

For Microsoft, who makes a lot of money selling a relational database server, marrying their flagship language with SQL makes sense, but I doubt it benefits anyone else.

Not even the developers who use it.

I can easily imagine all the programs that now rely on a relational database (or something hammered into a relational model) when any number of other data storage strategies would be a better fit. When all you know is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

LINQ is a query/update language for data structures. The beauty of it is that it can be used to read/update/modify vectors, lists, maps, etc. So, you just have one API to learn. And this API is easy to learn because it is modeled on SQL.

> because it is modeled on SQL

And that's the problem - you have a very Java-like syntax for the rest of C# with intrusions of SQL-like syntax. I'm not sure it's a good idea.

A solution more like the comprehensions you find in functional languages would probably be neater and more flexible.

Adding a Haskell-like list comprehension (or Python-like) is not Java-ish anyway. You anyway need to add new syntax and since SQL is already known to most developers, I think it will be easy to learn for the most.

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