> Don't really follow you here. The server may not have to parse before > the execution, but the client will have to do it, all you do here is > shift the load from the server to the client.
Well, once upon a time shifting all the work to the server was the new hotness, as the era of dumb clients ascended. Now that client machines are more powerful than the servers of yore, and today's servers are monster-hulka-multi-core beasts of burden with gobs more space and memory than most people "back in the day" imagined, a more distributed workflow surrounding the large-scale data workload in more of a grid-computing paradigm is emerging. The complexities of this are vast, but new patterns are being developed to address them. LINQ is one representative example of a pattern emerging in the design of languages and runtime systems making that paradigm possible and relatively easy to express in human terms. If you are building systems that interact with the outside world via the web at all (even desktop ones), this should be of interest, whatever your grudge against MS for building shitty operating systems over the years. LINQ, I'll say it again, is bigger than MS. It happens to be one of the first practical, real-world applications of "monads" that the average programmer can use, if not understand, and as such it's worth knowing about its origin and applications in the future. It's obviously not a silver bullet, nor is it the last such thing in the pipeline of new knowledge and skill sets worth acquiring. > Mmmhh... I prefer to learn the latest technologies that make my work > better/easier/enjoyable. If the latest technologies seem to give me no > *real* benefit (save for a feeling of being in the cutting edge) I'd > rather spend my time in other ways. I don't expect *you* to get a real benefit out of it. You'd obviously rather be grilling naked co-eds on your backyard pool BBQ than spend time exploring new ways to expand your professional horizons. ;) (Those of you who wisely don't follow our OT banter can safely assume the above was an inside joke. I know Ricardo does not restrict his voracious appetite to co-eds.) ;) - Publius [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
