> I've been toying with the idea of a language where queries are expressed as a pipeline of operations on result sets That is what the relational database engi

> I've been toying with the idea of a language where queries are expressed as a pipeline of operations on result sets That is what the relational database engine does in the first place. In fact, many really smart people have figured out how to make the engine really good at it and SQL is the best for working with it.