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by macando 2539 days ago
LINQ by Microsoft. It's expressive, elegant and very useful when dealing with all types of data. In addition, it pushed many OO programmers closer to functional languages.

> "...the design of LINQ query comprehensions was heavily influenced by the design of Haskell. Haskell expert Erik Meijer was on the C# language design committee when we designed LINQ; his insights were very valuable".