I agree that SQL is needlessly baroque. Not sure whether I agree that there are too many hoops for trivial things though. Leaving SQL ergonomics aside for the

I agree that SQL is needlessly baroque. Not sure whether I agree that there are too many hoops for trivial things though. Leaving SQL ergonomics aside for the moment, isn't relational algebra something which does require one to think carefully to avoid hastily producing plausible but incorrect queries?