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• Right on. (Score:1)

  by markjugg (792)

  Thanks for the excellent post, Ovid.
  
  As a professional Perl programmer of 10 years, I have evaluated several ORMs but not adopted one on the grounds that the complexity they add is not worth the benefit.
  
  Instead, I have the learned the DBI API very well, and use it combination with a light-weight SQL generation tool, SQL::Interp. The combination has proven to be efficient to develop and debug, from small scripts to large applications.
  
  Perhaps there are times when an ORM would save our team some moments, but I
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by spacebat (7584)

    I find DBI a bit painful - its good and all, but leaves me diving into the manual too often. DBIx::Simple and SQL::Interp together hit the sweet spot for me. Dead simple query generation and result handling, but the DBI connection handle is just a function call away.

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    • Re:Right on. (Score:1)

      by hex (3272) on 2008.06.08 15:54 (#63234) Homepage Journal

      Agreed. DBIx::Simple should always be the first thing shown to people who've never done anything with a database in Perl before. In my case, I've never needed anything else.

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