[jacklondon]

Why not if it is to facilitate new discoveries and to extend the reach of computational tools to large swaths of clever and productive people?

[dekhn]

because sql and other well-established systems already do this and tools like this can be built on those systems without creating yet another domain-specific tool.

[whattheheckheck]

Like this group has a set of modules locked in a specialization using this DSL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextflow