Stream values can also be strings, and the language is terrible for dealing with string-valued streams when they come up (but they come up surprisingly often, y

Stream values can also be strings, and the language is terrible for dealing with string-valued streams when they come up (but they come up surprisingly often, you just don't normally worry about them too much). If you ignore the issue of alignment, I actually think that a more conventional array based language, either something SQL-like or numpy-like, would be more accessible to most people. And things like windowing are incredibly unintuitive for most users.