Why isn't SQL ANSI-92 standard better adopted over ANSI-89?

Question

At every company I have worked at, I have found that people are still writing their SQL queries in the ANSI-89 standard:

select a.id, b.id, b.address_1
from          


        

Answer 1

In response to the NATURAL JOIN and USING post above.

WHY would you ever see the need to use these - they weren't available in ANSI-89 and were added for ANSI-92 as what I can only see as a shortcut.

I would never leave a join to chance and would always specify the table/alias and id.

For me, the only way to go is ANSI-92. It is more verbose and the syntax isn't liked by ANSI-89 followers but it neatly separates your JOINS from your FILTERING.