SQL sucks.

[Konata]

That is all. 

[extrarice]

I used to think so too. I thought more natural language like what's in FileMaker would overtake SQL. But I was wrong, and now that I've done more SQL, FileMaker's language is totally obtuse and difficult to work with 

MySQL > *

[RedWolf]

SQL seemed fine to me once I got used to it.  Granted that I never had to do much by hand -- I usually programmed a PHP script with SQL stuff and let it do the rest.

[extrarice]

I used to think so too. I thought more natural language like what's in FileMaker would overtake SQL. But I was wrong, and now that I've done more SQL, FileMaker's language is totally obtuse and difficult to work with 

MySQL > *

Yeah I'm quoting myself.

This kind of reminds me of AppleScript. It's a natural-language scripting environment which is pretty cool - until you actually try to accomplish something with it. Then it's a total pain to work with.

When you work with natural-language systems like FileMaker and AppleScript, you begin to realize just how much of language depends on context rather than just pure syntax and semantics. Computers can never understand context unless explicitly shown what that context is almost every single line of code.