Even the full-blown xBase languages (dBase, FoxPro, Clipper etc.) is so much easier to quickly manipulate data than SQL. The concept of a persistent data-store is built into the language, or rather, the language revolves around data access as opposed to modern languages that are primarily about abstraction.<p>We&#x27;ve come so far from the simple old days where a TodoMVC would have been just `use todo; browse`.