Looking for a language/framework

[Alex Martelli]

Jeffrey Froman <jeffrey at fro.man> wrote:

> Alex Martelli wrote:
> 
> > I've never seen an "object-relational mapping" (technical
> > term for cruft that tries to avoid people having to learn and use SQL)
> > which doesn't drive me into a murderous, foam-at-mouth rage in a very
> > short time -- I WANT my SQL, I LOVE SQL, it's WAY more powerful
> > and suitable for access to data than all those simulated "OO DB" people
> > lay on top of it
> 
> How refreshing to discover I'm not the only person on earth who feels this
> way.

Hey, there's two of us, if this was Italy we could found a new political
party!-)


> > (of course, that does depend on having a REAL 
> > relational DB underneath, not, say, MySQL;-).
> 
> Well, you lost me there ... I prefer MySQL to the alternatives, but I still
> feel validated :-)

Lots of people I respect like MySQL, I just can't see _why_ (compared,
for example, to PostgreSQL).  I guess our new party will have two rival
currents from the start (how nostalgically Italian!-)...


Alex