[theGeatZhopa]

I think it's not the fact there are so many frameworks for SQL abstraction, it's just the whole "computer thing". Like, the programmers before you used punched cards, there after used pointers in C, there after the fancy started. So the same is for the inner workings, may be, of the computer itself? Nowadays, no one knows the turbo button and what it actually did then-a-days. ..And especially the database, which is actually just a bunch of files being put on a disc in-a-row so the head isn't needed to be moved for- and backward the disc to collect the defragmented data but instead find all in the neighborhood sectors. That's like with Socrates: 'The f*cking youth will be societies end' - no, the youth can use tools you can't, they use it to advance forward, my fried Socrates, to advance forward, my friend...!

[cosmicradiance]

No doubt the tools are here to stay and I am not opposed to that. My only advice for young programmers is - when something just works like magic, dig deeper until it becomes science.