Timeline for Is Linq having a mind-numbing effect on .NET programmers?
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| Oct 1, 2012 at 23:42 | comment | added | ardave | I've worked out this exact same question and answer in my head, except far less eloquently, and the subject being ASP.NET WebForms. | |
| Aug 10, 2011 at 14:54 | comment | added | Brian MacKay | Funny. To me, LINQ is not a concept that's particularly easy to master. If you're doing anything of subtance, very quickly you need to stop thinking about the steering wheel and start understanding the transmission. I'm looking at you lamdas! | |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 13:04 | comment | added | AJ Johnson | You should put a copyright on that last sentence. Well said, sir. | |
| Sep 22, 2010 at 16:57 | comment | added | Aaronaught | I'm still doubting that LINQ attracts incompetent programmers - from what I've seen, it seems to be one of the hardest concepts for newbies to understand - but, this seems to be the best answer so far. | |
| Sep 22, 2010 at 16:56 | vote | accept | Aaronaught | ||
| Sep 21, 2010 at 20:31 | comment | added | ChaosPandion | @Jon - You are not alone, it is challenging to move from a "I want you do to this." mindset to "I want this." mindset. | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 20:18 | comment | added | user2458 | I think it's interesting that you're saying LINQ "lowers the bar" by making things too easy. I find LINQ mind numbingly confusing. I thought I was stupid, still using for loops and all that old fashioned stuff. | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 18:46 | comment | added | ChaosPandion | One great thing about LINQ is it allows me to prototype a solution in a functional approach. Then once I have a bug free solution I can use it as a test bench for an optimized imperative version. If the task is simple enough like applying a single filter I won't even bother. | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 18:06 | comment | added | Steven Evers | +1 for "Easy programming techniques don't make programmers stupid; they just attract stupid people to programming." | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 18:03 | comment | added | Aaronaught | I didn't quite go so far as to suggest that they were stupid - just perhaps not very good at programming. ;) Good answer though! | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 18:01 | history | answered | Mason Wheeler | CC BY-SA 2.5 |