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Abstracting away the "relational" part of the RDBMS sounds like a great idea in theory, but I've yet to meet a good O/R mapping layer in practice. What I have
by avibryant 19y ago
Abstracting away the "relational" part of the RDBMS sounds like a great idea in theory, but I've yet to meet a good O/R mapping layer in practice.
What I have met is several IT projects that have failed thanks to inordinate amounts of resources sunk into O/R mapping issues...
- corentin 19y ago> Abstracting away the "relational" part of the RDBMS sounds like a great idea in theory [...] Abstracting away a model doesn't sound like a great idea to me.
- jey 19y agoEver programmed in a "Higher Level Language"? The model of register-based computation has been abstracted away! Seems OK to me.
- jey 19y agoObject Orientation shouldn't be treated as a religion to which you must strictly adhere. You just want some useful concepts and abstractions to express your code in terms of. I don't want to see "LEFT OUTER JOIN" sprinkled through my code, as that's not a concept that is relevant to my application logic. Nor do I want to spend months implementing some idiotic "Object Oriented Design Patterns" because it's the current fad to join the Church of Object Orientation. I just aim to have some nice, clean concepts with which I can write simple and elegant code.