On 20/10/2012 06:19 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 10/8/2012 14:00, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>> something called LINQ, which seems to be of very dubious usefulness.
>> (Unless
>> you're actually writing database applications, anyway...)
>
> FWIW, LINQ is list comprehensions, except with a vaguely SQL-like
> syntax. Now you're good to go. :-)

I'm also not a fan of list comprehensions. Everything they can do can 
also be done using monads. And in fact, in the latest GHC releases, 
"list" comprehensions can be used for any monad. So really, it's just 
different syntax for stuff you can already do. So why bother?

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