It's not often that one sees their name right next to Anders' (especially considering that I'm a VB programmer ), but check out this LINQ article in the  current issue of Redmond Developer News. While the focus is Anders and this great technology he and others (and always with a nod to Alan Griver) are bringing to Visual Studio .NET, I was asked to give some developer perspective.

I'd also like to say that I wasn't literally jumping up and down at PDC.

I know that I have had the same reaction when watching Scott Guthrie present on LINQ to SQL. I think I'm jumping up and down with joy, but truly my butt remained glued to the chair.

It was fun talking to Michael Schwarz about this, but I think I may have overwhelmed him with my geek technical perspective of LINQ from which he was trying to extract key points for dev managers. He seems to have done a great job.

Michael talked to another developer, VB guru Bill McCarthy who gave him a great analogy quoted at the end of the article.