At least lists, dictionaries map relatively well to a tabular (SQL) format. Objects don't map well at all! Anyone who's spent enough time with "mature" ORMs kno

At least lists, dictionaries map relatively well to a tabular (SQL) format. Objects don't map well at all! Anyone who's spent enough time with "mature" ORMs knows this. Especially when there's a deadline and you have to write "native" SQL just to get whatever the hell you needed in the first place. "Well maybe you should have read everything and understood the ORM to its most minute detail..." NO! That's the whole point of abstraction! If I understood everything about that code, I'd be better off re-writing it to better suit MY specific problem. Look, I don't want to be another OO basher. OO definitely has a place in complex systems like game development, where the lives of the objects are longer than a page refresh. But in web dev, its becoming increasingly obvious to me that the OO paradigm is a huge time suck. /rant