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by mwcampbell 1374 days ago
I developed a web application in 2004 using Quixote and Durus. I wonder how many developers outside of MEMS Exchange ever used both of those packages. Somehow I had not yet encountered a proper ORM (I didn't discover SQLObject until later, and Django wasn't out yet), so I liked Durus at the time. That web application is still running, and in the years since then, I've had to handle several escalated customer support cases, and I often wished I had chosen a relational database so I could easily do ad-hoc queries. So Durus probably wasn't the best choice for my application, but that's not your fault. And one thing I liked about Durus was that the implementation was simple enough that I felt I could really understand how it worked. So thanks for that.