> A lot of people are not comfortable learning languages beyond the ALGOL-like paradigm. SQL's building blocks are incredibly odd if you're used to the idea tha

> A lot of people are not comfortable learning languages beyond the ALGOL-like paradigm. SQL's building blocks are incredibly odd if you're used to the idea that work gets done via variables, conditionals, and loops. Yes, although somewhat amusingly I've found that non-programmers who have never learnt an imperative programming paradigm tend to find SQL a lot more intuitive than ALGOL-style programming languages.