With it's 3.5 extensions, the .NET framework started to turn into a really cool looking programming concept, last but not least due to the syntactic sugar of LINQ. A reason for that is surely it's functional look. Well, as LINQ is integrated into an imperative context, it won't be ever able to guarantee state-free evaluation as a genuine functional language does. Nevertheless it's worth to discuss and play around with a few aspects of it in terms of a multiple programming paradigm concept.  → read more …

Remember a String object in .NET is a collection of Char objects, where a Char object in turn s announced as a unicode character, encoded by a 16bit unsigned integer. Thus, more precisely speaking, a single Char object is able to encode any codepoint within the basic multilingual lane (BMP), i.e. between U+0000 and U+FFFF. So, where goes the rest of the story? Unicode, as an universal character set, is designed to support much more than 65536 characters of ourse.  → read more …