Object Relational Mappers are evil (a meditation)

[mario ruggier]

On Oct 5, 4:25 pm, Aaron Watters <aaron.watt... at gmail.com> wrote:

> Occasionally I fantasize about making a non-trivial change
> to one of these programs, but I strongly resist going further
> than that because the ORM meatgrinder makes it somewhere
> between extremely unpleasant and impossible to make any
> non-trivial changes to a non-trivial program, especially after
> it has been populated with data.

Object-relational mappers are like putting lipstick on a pig:
http://gizmoweblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/putting-lipstick-on-pig.html

m ;-)