Re: WO vs. .Net 3.5 LINQ

On 01.12.2007, at 23:25, Miguel Arroz wrote:
> On 2007/12/01, at 22:12, Mike Schrag wrote:
>>> In MS's defense, LINQ is more abstract than that, and a LITTLE bit  
>>> interesting ... For instance, you can construct a LINQ query  
>>> against an XML document (so it effectively behaves like XPath, but  
>>> in a unified query language).
>  Humm.... that seems... Core Data? :)

Hm, no, isn't the XML of CoreData just a CD specific dump of the in- 
memory objects?

To me it sounds more like KVC on a DOM node. (evaluateWithObject()  
called on a DOM node which obviously needs to provide a sensible  
KVC=>XML mapping).
(valueForKey on a DOM node could do all kind of funky things)

Language wise I'm not sure whether LINQ is a particulary good idea,  
IMHO the only real application is SQL generation (well, or other stuff  
which will be executed in a different process, IMAP4 or LDAP queries  
would also be OK).
For stuff which is processed by the appserver HOM/blocks look like a  
much more beautiful solution.

Greets,
   Helge