I started my career in the 90s writing ROLAP engines, and even though I've spent most of my time since doing "web" development, I still seem to end up having to

I started my career in the 90s writing ROLAP engines, and even though I've spent most of my time since doing "web" development, I still seem to end up having to build engines that generate SQL queries that are dozens of lines long. The complaints about SQL composability are real. The grammar is fundamentally pretty irregular. Acceptable for humans to type ad-hoc, crappy for computers to generate. You can like what SQL does for you (I do!) but it's also easy to imagine something a bit better. I thought the article was spot-on. I hope some future SQL x.0 will fix these issues, but also be similar enough to present-day SQL that I don't have to learn a whole new language from scratch.