[rspeele]

> I'd say SQL is a very high level language.

Yes indeed. When I learned SQL in college, the professor made a HUGE deal about how it was a "4th generation language" so it was so abstract you didn't have to think about how the computer would answer your query.

Even at that time I thought that was massive overstatement of what using SQL was like. It didn't deliver on that promise very well. But it's very funny to see plain SQL now sometimes called "low level"!

[adammarples]

Yes it did, you don't need to worry about whether the sql execution engine is spark, or snowflake, or sqlite or what, you just reason about the top level logic