I've also tried to rewrite some of my challenging queries [0] in my hypothetical syntax and while I think your observation about pipeline length is correct, the

I've also tried to rewrite some of my challenging queries [0] in my hypothetical syntax and while I think your observation about pipeline length is correct, the result still came out much better than SQL. Frankly, even in F#, most of my pipelines are around 5 functions too. In my view, pipelines are just a convenient mental model. I'd love to see your sketches, here are my (very WIP) concepts: [1] I don't quite see how a computation graph would work as the core of a textual language and I'm sceptical about using it with existing DBMSs (I'd like to actually use my creation one day :) ), but I'm open to ideas. [0]: for example this monstrosity: https://gitlab.com/dvdkon/jrutil/-/blob/dbb971c18526e68dcc97415676298b4404e47970/rtview/src/Trip.fs#L73 https://gitlab.com/dvdkon/jrutil/-/blob/dbb971c18526e68dcc97... [1]: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2147895 https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2147895