I find F#'s type inference to be really nice. You feel like you are almost writing in a scripting language but whenever you mess something up it will tell you. And if you say, "No F# you are wrong!" F# always wins. And the ability to write small pieces of the code in F# interactive is tremendously useful. I find I like T-SQL for that same reason. I can write small programs scripting as I go and bring everything together in a bigger program all without having to worry about types too much. The tooling isn't quite as nice with T-SQL as it is with F# (granted C# blows F# away with its tooling, but F# is catching up slowly).

What's nice about T-SQL is that you can do a lot of your programming in it and then you generators to generate all your C# code (Query-First) and even your client side code (I'm working on a console app that will do that for me). But the tooling for this is not very mature. I don't understand why programmers don't embrace it wholesale. I feel like I'm always writing so much cruft in my day-to-day job and screaming at the computer that I could do what takes an hour in C# in 5 minutes in SQL.

SQL is a bit harder to learn at first. But the more you work with it the easier it gets. And it is much easier to understand since there isn't much to it, unless you are doing something really complex. But then, I don't know if C# is that much clearer.

I just wish the tooling were as nice for PostgreSQL as it is for SQL Server. I don't understand how you can pay $200 for a product that can't even figure out what fields my alias refers to.