Author here, I just noticed that this got picked up so I'm late to the party. I suppose I'll take the bait and aim to clarify one thing that I think is funny pe

Author here, I just noticed that this got picked up so I'm late to the party. I suppose I'll take the bait and aim to clarify one thing that I think is funny people are getting hung up on. My line: "I don’t want to live in a world where the best language humans could think of for working with data was invented in the 70’s" Read in context, the meaning of that sentence isn't that things invented decades (or centuries or millennia) ago are all bad. I even state that SQL is a great and powerful tool. If you took from the post that I think SQL is shit and needs to be replaced, you weren't paying attention. The point of that line (and really the point of us creating Flux) is that we think there can be a more elegant and understandable language (read: API) for working with time series data. But that we won't get there by trying to improve SQL. You don't build an automobile by creating better wheels for your horse and buggy. Also, SQL isn't a language like English. SQL is an API and APIs change all the time. Yes, code is communication, but its form evolves much more quickly than spoken and written language between humans.