Am I missing something about LINQ?

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Published on 2008-08-21T21:54:56Z Indexed on 2010/06/06 11:42 UTC
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I seem to be missing something about LINQ. To me, it looks like it's taking some of the elements of SQL that I like the least and moving them into the C# language and using them for other things.

I mean, I could see the benefit of using SQL-like statements on things other than databases. But if I wanted to write SQL, well, why not just write SQL and keep it out of C#? What am I missing here?

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