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> I always find the people who don't believe writing raw SQL is preferable to using an ORM is usually down to a lack of experience

> The ORMers, as I call them, don't have confidence in their own SQL ability

SQL is leaky abstraction too. Every time you look at query plans and try to tweak the right amount and kind of indices, you are having to deal with the drawbacks of the SQL abstraction. That does not make people who do that "don't have confidence in their own file-system ability".




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