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Martin Fowler: ORM Hate

People > Companies ❤️ - programming.dev [Unofficial] March 23, 2026
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submitted by HaraldvonBlauzahn to programming 20 points | 24 comments https://martinfowler.com/bliki/OrmHate.html This is a pragmatic piece of Fowler on the rather dry topic of Object-relational mappings - in short, the attempt to marry an object-oriented code base with a relational data base. > Usually you’d get enough early success to commit deeply to the framework and only after a while did you realize you were in a quagmire - this is where I sympathize greatly with Ted Neward’s famous quote that object-relational mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science What Fowler refers to here, is Ted Neward’s article “The Vietnam Of Computer Science”

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