[anothername12]

> We should really standardize a core language for SQL

Do you mean something other than ISO/IEC 9075:2023 (the 9th edition of the SQL standard)?

[roenxi]

It costs 194 CHF to read. There is room for improvement.

[Ericson2314]

A core language is a minimal AST without surface syntax (and thus no bikeshedding of that) that distills the surface language to its essence.

[Ericson2314]

SQL is basically the list monad, with various quotients / refinements:

- Sometimes the order doesn't matter - Sometimes there are functional dependencies - Sometimes one knows the length of the list in question is 1 (foreign key constraints)