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SQL does not need to be replaced, in the same way that COBOl never needed to be replaced. It can get the job done, but we have superior tools today. Better abstractions enable more productivity.

That there are N flavors of SQL is annoying, but there are foundational design choices in the language which we are stuck with today. PRQL is quite readable to those with SQL experience and feels like a plausible next language in the space without reinventing paradigms.

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To go back to my original post, my main beef is with turning an imperative language into a declarative one. If you've seen enough of these types of languages degrade, you start to see a pattern.