[gerardo]

The relational-object problem is called Object-Relational impedance mismatch, duh!(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_impedance_mis...)

For me, fast Web Application development is worth the tradeoff. I usually begin to hate sql on the second month of a project.

[wccrawford]

I love SQL. What I hate is the tedium of turning the results into something useable. ORMs eliminate that pretty handily.

As they say, "If it didn't exist, I'd have to invent it."