> I dunno... English to sql query is probably easier than English to French. You can have substantial success in transforming English to French without underst

> I dunno... English to sql query is probably easier than English to French. You can have substantial success in transforming English to French without understanding what is said. Some big grammar rulebooks, some dictionaries, and a few terabytes of sentence-aligned parallel texts and data on statistical colocations in the languages will get you most of the way. It's far from 100% accurate but the human brain is surprisingly good at filling in the gaps with the mangled grammar and odd turns of phrase. I'm not so sure the same is true about English to SQL query. The exact meaning of the English must be understood, in context, in order to construct the query correctly. No room for error or fuzziness. The database engine doesn't have human cognition to fall back on should the query be slightly malformed or ambiguous.