Yes! Please! The time for saner alternatives to SQL for querying relational databases is long overdue. Is sad that Postgres completely replaced QUEL with SQL,

Yes! Please! The time for saner alternatives to SQL for querying relational databases is long overdue. Is sad that Postgres completely replaced QUEL with SQL, it was not the best language ever, but some competition and alternatives in this area would be good. Probably the sanest alternative around today to SQL would be Date's D (not to be confused with the "C++ on steroids" D language), see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(data_language_specification) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(data_language_specification) and http://www.thethirdmanifesto.com/ http://www.thethirdmanifesto.com/ (evidence that database types should never be allowed to design websites :))