From: Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@...>
Date: 2010-11-14T05:14:45+09:00
Subject: Re: ORM's - Don't Do It!

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Phillip Gawlowski
<cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> No, it doesn't. SQL's syntax is unlike any programming language I
> know. Pure SQL contains no looping constructs, for example.

This is probably based on some version of SQL prior to SQL-99; from
SQL-99 on, SQL has had a looping construct in the form of recursive
common table expressions.

> It can only retrieve and store data.

Well, it can only retrieve, store, and do quite a bit of processing with data.