>>> extremely quirky programming language from the 70's (or whenever) Because it doesn't have to be shinny and all, it just works. There are no widely used alt

>>> extremely quirky programming language from the 70's (or whenever) Because it doesn't have to be shinny and all, it just works. There are no widely used alternatives, so we can say that people are happy-enough using it. See the situation with JS. CoffeeScript and all, it's quite popular. Is there an analogy (in terms of functionality and popularity) in SQL? Nope. No one bothered to do it well enough, or not enough people found that it's worth enough to learn it. We don't need to reinvent something every few years just because new JS frameworks come out and others are forgotten every few months.