[eternalban]

Very informative, thank you. You make a strong case for it. Interesting how in QL the query plan is kinda spelled out in the select. I also appreciate the motivation of 'seeing the algorithm'; makes sense. Why SQL-ish approach?

> Prompting is a wild west

I am racking my brain trying to remember a continuation based language that made it to hn frontpage recently. Wondering if something like that isn't a better approach for prompting.

But quite interesting. Thanks for the writeup.

[lachlan_gray]

Was it crystal by chance? I meant to have a look at it but never bothered, if it is maybe I will.

As for the SQLish approach, I’m not sure, it just seems to fit. I think it came from the way that there’s a thing you are requesting, and you have constraints you want applied to it. I think it’s one of those things where the analogy to SQL gives us developers just enough of a toe hold on what we’re doing to produce something but ultimately I think it will start to look less like SQL.