[LikesPwsh]

I realise this is meant to be a jab at high-level programming languages, but SQL really did succeed at that.

Its abstraction may leak sometimes, but most people using it are incredibly productive without needing to learn what a spool operator or bitmap does.

Even though the GUI and natural language aspects of 4GL failed, declarative programming was worth it.

[MBCook]

I really like SQL personally. You’re right it does work well, but I suspect that’s because it has a limited domain instead of being a general purpose language.