>I can't remember the talk..."ORM's are the Vietnam of programming". Had seen that article a while ago. Saw a few other mentions of it already in this thread,

>I can't remember the talk..."ORM's are the Vietnam of programming". Had seen that article a while ago. Saw a few other mentions of it already in this thread, but here are a few I googled for and found: http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-science/ http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-scie... (the original, maybe) HN thread: Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science (2006) (codinghorror.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7310077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7310077 https://blog.jooq.org/2012/05/09/martin-fowler-on-the-vietnam-of-computer-science/ https://blog.jooq.org/2012/05/09/martin-fowler-on-the-vietna...