Things that suck: ORMs

• RDBs are awesome when when your data is relational

• Object hierarchies are not relational

• Not at all

• ORMs clumsily try to store object hierarchies in relational databases

• s/clumsily/absurdly/

• s/clumsily/desperately/

• s/clumsily/pathetically/

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