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Your reply reminds me of Zed Shaw's presentation 'The ACL is dead'. Basically he said that if the law rules that you have to handle are turing complete, you're probably better off with a turing complete language:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=420650

Of course, procedural code becomes spaghetti code quite easily, but one probably needs the same discipline when doing object oriented/relational modeling...



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