From: Jeff Davis <ruby@...>
Date: 2008-09-26T12:16:47+09:00
Subject: Re: How to make Ruby _THE_ scripting language of choice, fold in	SQLite

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 08:53 +0900, ara.t.howard wrote:
> i think that's looking backwards.  something like couchdb takes only a  
> few hundred lines of code to interface with and already does a ton of  
> that - the rest would be trivial.  imho sql is a dead-end road,  
> nevertheless much of what you are describing is already done by sequel  
> (the ruby orm).
> 

Sequel is fundamentally different than a traditional ORM, and in my
opinion, much better. SQLAlchemy is a conceptually similar project for
python, and both are much more promising than any ORM.

As far as SQL being a "dead-end road", it needs to have a replacement,
first. Sequel/SQLAlchemy are a start in that direction, but the SQL
DBMSs provide a lot of things aside from just language.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis