VBer can't understand LINQ

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I was searching around for books and checking the comments and found this one to be humorous. "It would be nice to have an author approach LINQ from a VB programming point. I really don't want to have to rewrite everything into C# just because no one seems to want to publish a book on LINQ using VB." http://www.amazon.com/review/R1MZ6Z4KBFP5BV/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?%5Fencoding=UTF8&ASIN=0735624003&nodeID=283155#wasThisHelpful[^]

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Brady Kelly

:laugh::laugh:

MidwestLimey

I still find it scary ".net developers" can't do both.

I'm largely language agnostic

After a while they all bug me :doh:

Rajesh R Subramanian

I see the post about the VBer is closely related to your signature. :laugh:

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leppie

LINQ implemented syntactically and semantically in R6RS Scheme in 250 lines of code. View here[^]. Not hard :)

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Sam Rahimi

C# seems scary if you come from VBLand, like I did... I used it for about a month, no joke, and was writing code faster than I did in VB... I'd advise everyone to switch over. In my personal, biased opinion :)

Paul Conrad

Mark Nischalke wrote:

"It would be nice to have an author approach LINQ from a VB programming point. I really don't want to have to rewrite everything into C# just because no one seems to want to publish a book on LINQ using VB."

:omg: Maybe they ought to read this: LINQtoSQL_VB[^], though on the too much code only side for my likes.

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modified on Friday, July 18, 2008 12:01 PM

Michael Sync

As I used to do both VB.NET and C# nearly everyday, I used to say that VB.NET or C# is really not matter for me.. I've been doing this for 4 years without any problems. but when I started doing LINQ, the syntax that we can use in VB.NET and C# are quite different.... Actually, it's not about LINQ. It's about the inconsistent feature of C# 3.0 and vb.net 9.0.. For example: I can use "var" in C# but not in VB.NET. I can directly assign the XML code to a variable in VB.NET but i can't do that in C#.. So, i think the developer won't be able to switch from C# to VB.NET so easily if C# team and VB.NET team keep on doing that way...

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modified on Friday, July 18, 2008 12:21 PM

Shog9 0

MidwestLimey wrote:

I still find it scary [when] ".net developers" can't do both.

Fixed that for ya... ;)

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'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

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I agree that you should be able to read both. As for using them both, you should also, however, I've found I'm more proficient in C#

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Sam Rahimi wrote:

I used it for about a month, no joke, and was writing code faster than I did in VB...

To be fair, you can replace C# with "x86 assembler" and have the same experience... :-\

Citizen 20.1.01

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

Sam Rahimi · Citizen 20.1.01

I don't know if a month of X86 assembler would have me writing apps more productively than using the .NET framework LOL :)

Big Daddy Farang · modified on Friday, July 18, 2008 12:21 PM

Michael Sync wrote:

in C# but not in C#.

You might want to fix that. :)

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Michael Sync

Big Daddy Farang wrote:

You might want to fix that

Oh! sorry.. :) fixed. Thanks a lot, man :)

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Shog9 0

Half-way joking, but... yeah. Last time i had to write a significant amount of VB it pretty much put me off coding altogether for a while. Wretched language... :rolleyes:

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'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

Michael Sync

thanks. I'm not sure why my reply to your post goes to my own message. :(

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Michael Sync

oh.. my reply that goes wrong move back to your message correctly.. everything looks like magic these days..

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Richard Andrew x64

Let's not be too hard on VB, after all, VB is the gateway language. People start with VB and then move on to other languages.

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Not being hard on VB. Just found it humorous that the guy appeared to be totally lost when semi-colons were involved :)

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Big Daddy Farang

Michael Sync wrote:

everything looks like magic these days..

As it should be! :-D

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