[michaelcampbell]

Probably partially because you (like me) know SQL pretty well. I'm dealing now with an application at $currentjob whose employees are really, really good at Ruby on Rails' ActiveRecord, and the Rails/AR code they come up with seems to me INCREDIBLY complex, taking (I think) more lines than the equivalent SQL would. And not really any more readable. But they're very much into do it the Rails way because Rails says you should.

I think it's one reason that I'm leaving at the end of next week.