> How many man-hours have been wasted on ORM, XML, annotations, debugging generated SQL, and so on? It makes me cry. Agreed. All my greatest successes with ORM

> How many man-hours have been wasted on ORM, XML, annotations, debugging generated SQL, and so on? It makes me cry. Agreed. All my greatest successes with ORMs have been ripping them out of projects I've inherited. The results have been more maintainable code that's faster and less resource intensive.