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Jonathan Robie wrote: > Reminds me of the people who thought that managers would be able to read > COBOL programs even if they couldn't program, since COBOL has such > natural English-based syntax. Apparently SQL was designed with similar goals, too, which is why I now have to suffer when the smart run-time query optimiser Gets It Wrong and I have to write contorted SQL to trick the optimiser into scanning the tables in the right order when doing a join :-) Attempts to make programming possible for the non-programmers always seem to end in failure. The lesson to learn is that the hard part of programming isn't the syntax - it's the mindset. Things like ColdFusion attempted to make server-side scripting easy for people coming from an HTML background by making all the commands look like elements and attributes, but it seemed to just spawn a load of badly implemented Web sites. It provided an easier learning curve on the *syntax* than PHP or ASP or whatever, but you still needed to understand HTTP, SQL, Web security, string processing, ... > > Jonathan > ABS
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