Object Relational Mappers are evil (a meditation)

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2009-12-16, J Kenneth King <james at agentultra.com> wrote:
> The language doesn't encourage anything.  It's just a medium
> like oil paints and canvas.  A painting can be good or bad
> despite the medium it is constructed on.  The skill of the
> painter is what matters.

Technically, oil paints do encourage a certain kind of painting.
They can be layered on top of old paint easily, and they dry
slowly, allowing you to slowly "build up" a painting in layers,
and create effects with texture. If you try doing thse things
with watercolors, and you'll probably be discouraged.

I think a programming language does encourage a certain kind of
code. Good code in one language can be poor in another.

-- 
Neil Cerutti