C#'s greatest mistakes

[Nick Sabalausky]

"BLS" <windevguy at hotmail.de> wrote in message 
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> On 27/11/2010 20:53, Roman Ivanov wrote:
>> On 11/27/2010 2:49 PM, BLS wrote:
>>> On 27/11/2010 04:27, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> http://oredev.org/2010/sessions/c-s-greatest-mistakes
>>>>
>>>> Andrei
>>>
>>> Frankly said, I am a bit nagged by your overoptimistic D view.
>>>  From my point of view it is opportune to encourage people to use D2 for
>>> real world applications. We (our company)  having a 20K+
>>> customer base are not able (and willing) to use D instead of C#, except
>>> for tiny in-house projects.  why>   database, gui, xml, just to name the
>>> top 3 issues.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, what kind of XML support would you need?
>
> From Setup storage to WSDL to Restful  services. (But it is almost about 
> online ordering of material)
>>
>>> So .. What about an "where C#  shines and D sucks" article. Let us start
>>> with LINQ in D, or do you prefer to talk about phobos collections ?
>>
>> Is something like LINQ possible in D?
>
> I don't think so. (ATM, several people have tried by using string mixins)
>  But I can imagine at least one (imo) smart solution.
> Enable compiler plug-in's so that you can write ..
>
> void ExecSQLQuery()
>   DataTable dt = new DataTable();
>
>   SQL92{ /*like asm {} */
>     dt = SELECT * FROM Customer WHERE IsPotentialClient = 1;
>   }
>
> }
> //which translates into D code  (the D lexer/parser unit calls the D2 
> SQL92 Translator generator which generated this D source)
>
>   import SQL92
>   dt = db.Select("SELECT * FROM Customer WHERE PotentialClient = 1");
>
>
> This translation feature could be generic.. we can create a translator 
> based on
> Annotated EBNF In -> Annotated EBNF out
>
> In fact I've created a tool (in Java) to translate SQL scripts. Firebird 
> to  MSSQL respective PosgreSQL.
> Hope this gives you an idea.. :)
> Bjoern

I haven't actually used LINQ, but I've never understood the appeal of it 
versus an object API that gets rid of SQL in user code entirely.