Comment by losvedir

I love these ideas! I've been thinking about the "fully relational" language ever since I worked with some product folks and marketers at my start up 15 years ago who "couldn't code" but were wizards at cooking up SQL queries to answer questions about what was going on with our users and product. There was a language written in rust, Tablam[0] that I followed for a while, which seemed to espouse those ideas, but it seems like it's not being owrked on anymore. And Jamie from Scattered Thoughts[1] has posted some interesting articles in that direction as well. He used to work on the old YC-company/product LightTable or Eve or something, which was in the same space.

I've also always thought Joe Armstrong's (RIP) thought of "why do we need modules" is really interesting, too. There's a language I've seen posted on HN here a couple times that seems to go in that approach, with functions named by their normalized hash contents, and referred to anywhere by that, but I can't seem to remember what it's called right now. Something like "Universe" I think?

[0] https://github.com/Tablam/TablaM [1] https://www.scattered-thoughts.net [2] https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/05876...