> And SQL is very much a "fad" language - it just somehow managed to stick around.
Probably because - despite it not being perfect - the only people who have been able to do it better are very slight variations of it like LINQ and Logica and GoogleSQL etc.
KQL is a great language for quickly analyzing data, too. I've grown to love it.
Edgar F. Codd did it better when he designed Alpha. It is his work that we still talk and dream about to this day. SQL won because it was the first implementation to be network-connected, which was far more important to industry than language.