[sterileopinions]

>This is one of the things MS Entity Framework gets right - it enforces the "start with FROM"

It gets it "right" (right being a very loosely defined term here) by happenstance, because you're operating off of an object. Not because it was some higher level design choice or discussion.

[alexvoda]

It gets it (this order of operations issue) right because it is actually easy to get it right. It is in fact remarkable that SQL got it wrong.