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Understanding LINQ’s Shift from Imperative to Declarative Program

Understanding LINQ’s Shift from Imperative to Declarative Program

Learn about LINQ expressions, LINQ’s declarative approach streamlines tasks and improves code efficiency.

The first question we need to answer is fundamental: why LINQ?

Comparing imperative and declarative language features

LINQ was introduced in 2008 with C# 3.0 and .NET Framework 3.0. Before that, if a C# and .NET programmer wanted to process a sequence of items, they had to use procedural, also known as imperative, code statements. For example, a loop: ...