> SQL is very literally a domain-specific language for working with relational data; why would we go so far out of our way to eschew writing code in it? It is,

> SQL is very literally a domain-specific language for working with relational data; why would we go so far out of our way to eschew writing code in it? It is, and all ORMs I know use it under-the-hood. It is the boilerplate code by which SQL is issued to the DB, and results parsed into something usable by the rest of the program that people try to avoid writing over and over.