The blogspam post you linked has zero examples of QUEL. Looking at Wikipedia [0], it seems much uglier and less readable than SQL. I am not a database theory p

The blogspam post you linked has zero examples of QUEL. Looking at Wikipedia [0], it seems much uglier and less readable than SQL. I am not a database theory person. I'm a developer who does not care about Codd's relational calculus. As for ORMs, they are great at solving simpler problems and CRUD data access, and they make the developer’s life easier by giving them nice objects to work with as opposed to raw database rows. However, any advanced analytics/reporting/summary queries tend to look awful with an ORM. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages