RE: [xml-dev] Another mutated variant of the 'PowerPoint makes you dumb' story

Alaric B Snell <> writes;

> 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 :-)

Hmmm, must be using Oracle....