People actually wanted QUEL? There is nothing of value there. Maybe this is a hindsight bias, but it was less powerful than SQL in pretty much every way possibl

People actually wanted QUEL? There is nothing of value there. Maybe this is a hindsight bias, but it was less powerful than SQL in pretty much every way possible. The only thing SQL got irrevocably wrong from the start was null handling which forced us into non-intuitive ternary logic that couldn't be deprecated because of backwards compatibility.