From: David Brennan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> My apologies if I in anyway implied that your brain was superior to the
rest
> of us - that certainly wasn't my intention! ;-)
Well don't do it again. :-)
> My point was more that some people find SQL difficult to understand,
> especially more complex queries. I think the Ansi standard reads better
from
> a pseudo english point of view than standard syntax, just as I think
Delphi
> reads better than C++ does (again from a pseudo english point of view). I
> think the way joins are implemented in standard syntax would be fairly
> cryptic if you were just learning for the first time (cf Ansi where it
> specifically says, we are joining x with y on a = b).
Actually, you should know that Visual Basic is even more accessible to
beginners than Delphi. And more accessible still is to draw huge, really
colourful pictures, in crayon.
> Of course the fact remains that if I hadn't been pushed into using Ansi
> syntax I would still be using standard syntax myself so I can't really
argue
> with you!
Then stop! ;-)
Cheers,
Carl
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