I was reacting to the parent post as well, suggesting that they should have used “fundamental” rather than “low-level”, and that “fundamental” would also match the article picture.
replyDunno. I think the pic is useless. SQL is not in the foundation of all those langs.
replySQL is still very useful after all these years: that's the point that anyone will agree on.
Not low level. Not "fundamental" (by most definitions I can think of).