There may be some issues with his post, but I have the highest regard for Ted. EXTREMELY bright guy. Well known in both the .NET and Java camps.


>Interesting link.
>Skipping the whole 'Vietnam war' analogy he has some good anti-ORM arguments. But often (for example with object queries) he spends three or four paragraphs hi-lighting one potential shortcoming only to point out in the next three paragraphs that there are alternatives that avoid the problem.
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>And, of course, the whole article is devoted to pointing out these ORM problems with no reference to other, equally problem-ridden, alternative strategies.
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>Actually, I've always found it odd that taking a well-designed relational datbase and then, as soon as you issue a join, flattening the whole thing out again is not regarded as an impedence mismatch ?