> SQL makes it easy to write and read simple queries, and ridiculously complicated and arcane to write slightly more complex logic. This is consistent with my

> SQL makes it easy to write and read simple queries, and ridiculously complicated and arcane to write slightly more complex logic. This is consistent with my experience, and exactly backward of what you want a language to be - which is good scaling of solution complexity as a function of problem complexity, even (although ideally not) at the cost of upfront effort required to learn.