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LINQ and F.P.

My current reading list includes the book Pro LINQ.

While reading the second chapter I was thinking that all the “powerful features” (lambda, extension methods, anonymous types) introduced in C# 3.0 (mainly to support LINQ) are kind of well known in funtional programming world. LINQ was ringing bells of deja-vu. All this query processing was a bit like (lazy) list manipulation, but a bit more than that list …

This blog post make it quite straightforward:

Perhaps, it should have been called LINM (Language INtegrated Monads)

Got it! LINQ allows to use monads without knowing it :)