[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-DB] Relational Databases in Zope 2 and Zope 3

[Luciano Ramalho]

On Monday 28 June 2004 09:12, Charlie Clark wrote:
> Will definitely want to drop <dtml-sqlgroup>, <dtml-sqltest> and such like
> as these do not encourage good SQL programming.

How is it that <dtml-sqlgroup> and <dtml-sqltest> do not encourage good SQL 
programming? 

From my experience these commands allow developers to save countless hours 
creating very error-prone and hard-to-debug procedures for assembling SQL. 
<dtml-sqlgroup> and <dtml-sqltest> on the other hand change this procedural 
chore to high level "declarative"-like programming.

I can't see how this is bad, but I am always eager to learn and if anyone can 
point me to articles explaining why these very useful commands should be 
dropped, I will look deeper into it.

--
Luciano