On the topic of friendlier SQL, there was a feature LINQ to SQL added to (and I believe removed from) .Net It was basically syntactic sugar for a persistence A

On the topic of friendlier SQL, there was a feature LINQ to SQL added to (and I believe removed from) .Net It was basically syntactic sugar for a persistence API. Instead of "select bar from foo" it used a "from foo select bar" type of syntax. This was rather nice from a code completion perspective.