The core of fowler's article is, "what is the alternative to ORMs?" - and the answer is there isn't much other than rolling your own.
This is not at all analogous to PHP where there is an abundance of alternatives to it's mediocre design. PHP isn't hated because of its concept - a "web-based scripting language". It's hated because it's done very poorly. Just like a lot of bad ORMs Fowler refers to.
This is not at all analogous to PHP where there is an abundance of alternatives to it's mediocre design. PHP isn't hated because of its concept - a "web-based scripting language". It's hated because it's done very poorly. Just like a lot of bad ORMs Fowler refers to.