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Calling SQL a "little language" must surely be a joke. Even if you ignore the differences between its many dialects, SQL is only "little" in that it is domain-specific rather than general purpose.

In fact the entire article seems to boil down to "DSLs are the future", which I'm sure I've seen articles about back when Ruby on Rails was dominating web technologies, Cucumber (and its various ports) created "BDD" testing fad and DevOps started gaining traction on top of various "Ruby DSLs" used as configuration formats.

I don't think DSLs are going to go away any time soon. But there is a trade-off between domain-specific "little languages" and general purpose programming languages (or "DSLs" that are actually subsets of the latter). It can be fun to have to work with a little language, it's not so fun to work with dozens of them, each with different rules you have to memorize, instead of just being able to use the same language for all (and in truth, this was the source of the Ruby DSL craze because developers were already using Ruby on Rails).