There are alternative syntaxes to SQL that I find easier to maintain. Like sequence of piped commands like bash or Splunk/Sumologic/Azure analytics language and

There are alternative syntaxes to SQL that I find easier to maintain. Like sequence of piped commands like bash or Splunk/Sumologic/Azure analytics language and similar. Order in syntax for SELECT is weird. I usually look FROM then WHERE then the fields being selected. Feels like reading backwards.