Unfortunately I didn't have time to read these articles in depth, nor do I have the time to write a detailed answer now - sorry. But it seems to me that the sit

Unfortunately I didn't have time to read these articles in depth, nor do I have the time to write a detailed answer now - sorry. But it seems to me that the situation has changed since these articles were written, at least concerning the tools I know best (which are .NET and C#). We now have built-in support for data (sets) manipulation in C# and Entity Framework makes things like db.Customers.First().FirstName with syntax support totally real. Many of the premises these essays seem to be based on (like "the languages in play lack any real specialized data structures") are just not true anymore. Also, I would like to know more about why using an ORM like EF would force me to "have an incredibly stupid schema".