There are some interesting points in this other article you reference, such as calling out a few of the strengths and weaknesses of the CWA. I'm a bit puzzled b

There are some interesting points in this other article you reference, such as calling out a few of the strengths and weaknesses of the CWA. I'm a bit puzzled by the assertion that SQL has no recursion, since recursive CTE's are part of the ANSI standard and are supported in popular RDBMs such as Oracle and Postgres. Postgres even has writable CTE's, allowing for example Mandlebrot sets to be computed as SQL queries. On the DDL side there are nested tables.