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Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. LINQ has an almost inordinate need for its users to declare a large number of small, simple delegates. The architects of C# decided that forcing the users of LINQ to declare delegates using standard C# 2.0 delegate syntax was an overly verbose option. They wanted to find a shorter, more concise way to accomplish the same task.