While it is true that SQL may not be the most elegant solution for variables or some other applications, having a wider array of tools built in would be convenient. Right now, my peak script and welcome back script use SQL tables and I've personally seen that compared with using a text file (since my WB script uses wildcard matching to match against users and other non-indexable methods), utilizing SQLite gave my a tremendous boost in speed. While I'm not saying to move mIRC's variables over to SQL as you could have been implying, it's still nice to have it available for people to use; I definitely don't agree with fixing something that isn't broken.