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[nycphp-talk] ORM vs SQL: the ultimate showdown

Kenneth Downs ken at secdat.com
Sat Sep 15 15:45:12 EDT 2007


Mark, this all sounds very interesting.

Nothing will improve your code nearly as much as letting other people 
see it.

Get it on sourceforge!  Release early!  Release Often!

Mark Armendariz wrote:
> I'm a huge fan of SQL, and I've been using it for over 10 years.  its 
> a solid and reliable friend.  But it seems to be far too wordy and 
> gets hairy to maintain, which is why we tend to look for ways to 
> modularize it within our programming languages.  When using SQL, we're 
> just working with strings.  mysql_query('SELECT * FROM customers') is 
> as painful as using innerHTML in javascript.  In some instances, you 
> just have to, but it 'feels right' to use the DOM, and the DOM allows 
> so much more power from a javascript perspective.
>


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