Why do people use linq to sql?

Question

Given the premise:

• There are competent sql programmers (correlary - writing sql queries are not an issue)
• There are competent application developers (corr

Answer 1

Some handy features are the debugger picking up sytax errors in your query, compared to writing SQL statements as strings. Mistakes that wont get picked up until runtime.

Plus I find LINQ statements easier to read than SQL.