Object Relational Mappers are evil (a meditation)
Bruno Desthuilliers
bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid
Tue Oct 6 05:13:49 EDT 2009
Carl Banks a écrit :
> On Oct 5, 7:25 am, Aaron Watters <aaron.watt... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is a bit off topic except that many Python
>> programmers seem to be allergic to typing SQL.
>>
>> RESOLVED: Using ORMs leads lazy programmers
>> to make bad database designs. It's better to
>> carefully design your database with no invisible
>> means of support and there is no reason to not
>> use SQL directly for this purpose.
>
> Yeah sure, whatever. I'm sure a good programmer could use sql
> directly and produce a tighter, faster, better-performing application
> than an ORM-solution, same as you could use C to produce a tighter,
> faster, better-performing application than a pure Python one.
It's certainly way easier to write good SQL than to write a good C
program, and even when using an ORM, it's sometimes worth "going down"
to hand-written SQL queries for some more or less complex cases. But I
guess this falls in the same category as recoding a couple core
functions in C for improved performances.
> Isn't WordPress written in PHP? Are ORMs even possible in PHP?
There are (alas) some attempts. Nothing close to SQLAlchemy nor even
Django's - PHP is just not hi-level enough.
> I can
> almost rationalize use of direct sql if the alternative is some
> hellspawn PHP ORM.
What _could_ possibly be done in PHP would at least be a higher-level
representation of sql expressions, that would make it easier to
dynamically build / modifie / combine queries. Working with "SQL as raw
strings" is both tiresome and error-prone when it comes to dynamically
generate complex queries. That part is IMHO *much* more important than
mapping tuples to objects.
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