I know people with 10 years experience with the language that still use the DSL for simple cases.

There is a lot of discussion about the usage of var, and ultimape's non-usage of it in his example is a personal preference, as well as making sense in an educational post.

And lastly, I think you'll find many developers, young and old alike, use x, y and z as their lambda parameters. I do too. It comes from the mathematical function origin of the syntax. In most early examples when it was introduced, and loads of educational materials now, lambda syntax is still presented akin to a mathematical formula:

x => x+1

In that context, using x makes a lot more sense than p, and has stuck around as a habit. It's a style thing, and everybody has their own style. You don't get to claim superior experience or skill based on a 2 line snippet that doesn't match your style.

And as an aside: you're not being downvoted by "the ignorant masses". You're being downvoted for being confrontational and not contributing to a conversation about the topic, which is Parallel LINQ and not coding style.

"Ach"? "Trawl"? No one uses those words. You're clearly not an English speaker.

They're reasonably prevalent in Scotland

Tch, come on, the briefest trawl through recent blog posts and you'll see the % of Scottish idioms has dropped to a small amount since people have been blogging. Downvoters be damned, they know not what they talk about. mattmanser is clearly not an English speaker.

For simpler stuff, ya, DSL is not handy at all. But for the complex ones, shame on you if you don't DSL it. And don't come with percentage of SO questions bullshit, that's bad programmer excuse.

For longer queries, that little DSL syntax it's a bless. It's way more pleasant to read, write or think about it than the alternative.

Ah, and since you care so much about it, I've been developing in C# for freaking years that I don't bother to sum it up anymore.

SO is as much about making yourself look as smart as possible while still needing help. I would bet half of the folks submitting questions over linq use resharper to "nerdify" their code before they submit it...

Not a fan of the DSL myself, but plenty of people in this C# shop here use it. Plus, replacing 'let' becomes ugly using methods rather quickly, for example.