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That's a load of FUD.

> * I don’t spell well

I don't want to lose minutes or hours debugging a stupid typo.

> * I don’t test much

Writing meaningful tests with my object model without having to care about bizarre SQL semantics.

> * I don’t care how much time and bandwidth it uses

Because ORM will optimize the queries for me, cache results and perform lazy loading when possible.

> * I only know Java (or C#, or whatever)

Using the full power of expressive languages to work with my object models, keep things DRY and reuse code, and have support for different storage engines and sql flavors.



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