I don't know if Tutorial D and its brethren are actually better than SQL in the ways that SQL is bothersome to most people. I don't think most people actually c

I don't know if Tutorial D and its brethren are actually better than SQL in the ways that SQL is bothersome to most people. I don't think most people actually care that SQL isn't a pure implementation of the relational system (and it goes further than Codd's original proposal, Codd called for NULLs, Date and Darwen want to throw them out). I think stuff like enabling code modularity and code reuse and otherwise acting like language design has advanced since the 1970s is far more interesting to most people than getting rid of bags in favor of sets.