[pruetj]

I used to work on an Ingres database using QUEL that did have FROM before SELECT, just with different key words. We would use something like:

  RANGE OF t IS table
  RETRIEVE INTO target (t.column1, t.column2) 
  WHERE t.condition

Instead of

  SELECT t.column1, t.column2
  FROM table t
  WHERE t.condition

I still find the joins to be more readable:

  RANGE OF t1 IS table1
  RANGE OF t2 IS table2
  RETRIEVE INTO target (t1.column, t2.column) WHERE t1.common = t2.common