A Funny Joke and a Sad Joke There is a joke that goes something like this: Two men are hopelessly lost in hot air balloon. Their condition is aggravated by the fact that they are enshrouded by a thicket of fog. When it seems all is lost, suddenly the fog parts and miraculously a man is standing on the...

My last post described in detail how query expressions in C# are translated, but I have a confession to make. I did a little bit of hand waving through one part of the translation rules. The astute reader (whomever that is, whenever I read such things I always wonder, "Am I that astute reader?") may...

Not long ago, I was reading through some articles posted on programming.reddit.com when I came across an article claiming that C# is trying to be a dynamic language . One user posted a comment that mentioned that C# 3.0 included among other things "embedded SQL". Unfortunately, it seems that there is...