I learned SQL in the late 00s. I like SQL. It's not Stockholm Syndrome either, I don't think. SQL isn't stylish, and it isn't beautiful, but it's pretty clear in spite of that. More than that, SQL is a lingua franca for databases, and it's very powerful -- this is a pretty difficult thing to beat, and the only thing that I've seen that can do it is LINQ, which isn't a language so much as an API for constructing query ASTs.
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I learned SQL in the late 00s. I like SQL. It's not Stockholm Syndrome either, I don't think. SQL isn't stylish, and it isn't beautiful, but it's pretty clear in spite of that. More than that, SQL is a lingua franca for databases, and it's very powerful -- this is a pretty difficult thing to beat, and the only thing that I've seen that can do it is LINQ, which isn't a language so much as an API for constructing query ASTs.