Functional C#: LINQ vs Method chaining at Mark Needham

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One of the common discussions that I've had with several colleagues when we're making use of some of the higher order functions that can be applied on collections is whether to use the LINQ style syntax or to chain the different methods together.

I tend to prefer the latter approach although when asked the question after my talk at Developer Developer Developer I didn't really have a good answer other than to suggest that it seemed to just be a personal preference thing.

Damian Marshall suggested that he preferred the method chaining approach because it more clearly describes the idea of passing a collection through a pipeline where we can apply different operations to that collection.

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