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I think you are going in the wrong direction. It's too easy to paint yourself in a corner that way.

> It would be awesome to let people express their ideas in terms of the domain and not worry about low-level details like loops.

Yes! I think you want to build this functionality on top of a powerful language to easily handle the dirty ETL work too. This is the reason lots of financial companies use python with scipy, numpy, pandas, etc, on top of it.

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