I like that someone is trying to come up with a better SQL syntax, and agree that many existing OO wrappers (and NoSql query syntaxes) end up making it more dif

I like that someone is trying to come up with a better SQL syntax, and agree that many existing OO wrappers (and NoSql query syntaxes) end up making it more difficult to write queries. But this proposal seems to make things a little too brief for my taste (what's the difference between < and > again?). I wonder if there's more to be gained by developing shorthand for more complex bits of SQL. For example, I've always been annoyed by the group by syntax, which seems redundant since the SQL interpreter should be able to determine which SELECT columns to group by (all columns that aren't aggregate functions).