Comment by 29athrowaway

SQL is like BASIC for data.

It is a language created to read like natural language, to facilitate its adoption.

Not only developers use SQL, less technical users also use it, especially in the finance industry.

Now, do you use BASIC professional software development? While some do, most don't. So why do we use SQL then?

An imperative language that compiles to SQL can be attractive, but unless the compilers come with good compiler warnings, we may end up created bloated database code.