[pacala]

>Do you really need a full objet-oriented API right now? Do you really need to make a dozen interwoven classes, when it’s possible just a hundred or so lines in one class will do fine? Can you do all the same error checking and unit tests in a much smaller code base?

Do you really need to split your data into small pieces, when you can use global variables and have a code-base that eliminates the need for function arguments and complicated function invokation strategies in a much smaller code base?

While the fight for proper functions has been largely won thanks to unit testing, a lot of people think that the database gives them back the license to code against global state and believe a code-base should be judged by the number of keystrokes needed to type it.