C # creator Anders Hejlsberg made a statement a few years after the .net platform came into being, recognizing that data was very important and admitting that they were developing linq.
A improvement over the COM runtime with better tooling, but then they pivoted the idea with J++, and had to reboot it with .NET for the reasons we all know.
https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/MSDNBlogsFS/p...
https://visualstudiomagazine.com/blogs/desmond-file/2007/03/...
"Confessions of a Used Programming Language SalesmanGetting the Masses Hooked on Haskell"
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.72...
"It's my hope that in five to 10 years, programming languages simply will have queries as a concept"