Comment by adrian_b

In my opinion SQL is the sub-optimal language.

Whenever I am writing SQL I am not thinking in SQL, but I am thinking in what I consider to be the mathematical sound way, which I translate into SQL while writing. I consider thinking in SQL a much greater mental handicap than having to translate mentally into it.

I would prefer to write directly in what I would consider as a good query language and have it translated automatically into SQL, for compatibility with what is, for unfortunate historical reasons, the standard.

I have not attempted previously to do or use something like this, but work like that discussed here seems like a step in the right direction.