On Dec 20, 8:03 pm, Ed Prochak <edproc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 19, 3:38 pm, steved...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > At:-
>
> >http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mic...rver.programmi...
>
> > Steve Dassin says:-
>
> > "If you are truely a beginner then your brain hasn't been filled with
> > crazy
> > glue yet.
> > For application development check out Dataphor. "
>
> > I am not yet proficient with SQL, and I'd like to avoid becoming
> > proficient with it. There are enough frustrated intellectuals banging
> > on about how inadequate it is for me to be virtually certain they're
> > right about Dataphor.
> []
>
> > I get the feeling I'm overlooking something horribly simple.
>
> > ------------------------
>
> > Help!
>
> > Steve B.
>
> Why jump through hoops to avoid learning SQL?
>
> To be an engineer you need to learn the tools of the trade. To be a
> software engineer the tools are languages. SQL is just one more tool.
> As more Chem Professor used to say:
> "if it works, use it!"
>
> Ed

There are hoops in either direction. Why jump through hoops for a
flawed, inferior language?

But yes, if these hoops prove too hard as it is looking like they
might, I'll have to bodge the job with SQL



Steve B.