[chuckm]

Straight off the bat the most glaring problem with that statement is that Linq is not part of C#

Parts of it are. Query expression keywords[1] are defined in the C# 3.0 Language Specification (see 7.15 Query expressions)[2].

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310804.aspx

[2] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dfb...