The day-to-day is certainly up for debate -- I prefer SQL myself. But imagine the initial learning curve for someone fairly new to programming. Persisting dat

The day-to-day is certainly up for debate -- I prefer SQL myself. But imagine the initial learning curve for someone fairly new to programming. Persisting data to, and reading data from, a "database" is a lot easier in code than learning SQL (which frequently use a client-server system, only further increasing the surface area of knowledge required to produce working results). The difficulty required to think about a solution increases significantly with additional components.