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Comment by matwood

11 years ago

if they don't know/want to use SQL and rely on ORM mapping alone, then they can as well do away with SQL databases too.

Until that whole leaky abstraction problem kicks in.

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tree_of_item  11 years ago

The idea behind doing away with the SQL database is to remove the leaky abstraction of an ORM, by making the object model the true shape of the data and not a wrapper over SQL.

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