[anticodon]

Django had ORM from the very beginning. I've been using Django since 0.95 at it had ORM even back then. It was primitive but I hadn't to resort to raw SQL until much later.

[renegade-otter]

Correction - it was an "ORM". I remember now, but it was so rudimentary and useless that I never really thought of it that way.

Nothing wrong with that. One had to start somewhere.