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Re:Literate SQL by vladsanchez on Sunday June 25, 2017 @03:17PM (#14631637)
ORMs are for people who don't know SQL.
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Re:Literate SQL by specialist on Sunday June 25, 2017 @03:49PM (#14631813)
...yet.
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Re:Literate SQL by Daishiman on Sunday June 25, 2017 @04:54PM (#14632120)
SQL is for people whose problem domain is so simple that they don't need to do things such as, I dunno, compose queries.
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Re:Literate SQL by flukus on Sunday June 25, 2017 @08:41PM (#14633121)
I agree, but all too often composable queries are for people that don't know who their users are or what the want. If you build workflow centric UI's then the need for composable queries generally goes away.
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