Jeffrey Froman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Martelli wrote: > > > I've never seen an "object-relational mapping" (technical > > term for cruft that tries to avoid people having to learn and use SQL) > > which doesn't drive me into a murderous, foam-at-mouth rage in a very > > short time -- I WANT my SQL, I LOVE SQL, it's WAY more powerful > > and suitable for access to data than all those simulated "OO DB" people > > lay on top of it > > How refreshing to discover I'm not the only person on earth who feels this > way.
Hey, there's two of us, if this was Italy we could found a new political party!-) > > (of course, that does depend on having a REAL > > relational DB underneath, not, say, MySQL;-). > > Well, you lost me there ... I prefer MySQL to the alternatives, but I still > feel validated :-) Lots of people I respect like MySQL, I just can't see _why_ (compared, for example, to PostgreSQL). I guess our new party will have two rival currents from the start (how nostalgically Italian!-)... Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
