I believe the PC revolution gave a few generations of programmers the mistaken belief that imperative languages with familiar features (Basic, Pascal, C, Perl,

I believe the PC revolution gave a few generations of programmers the mistaken belief that imperative languages with familiar features (Basic, Pascal, C, Perl, Python, Java, etc.) are the only or the best way to interact with computers. Forms of interaction developed earlier (Forth, Prolog, SQL, etc.) were learned later, grudgingly, if at all. SQL was viewed with disdain, a necessary evil to be held at arm's length. That stalled evolution of SQL, the success of other query languages, or really anything that didn't fit the Algol-style "general purpose programming language" blinders. Mercifully, finally, the cold war against SQL in particular and against relational databases in general seems to be thawing. Articles like this one exemplify that trend