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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

It's funny, I know exactly zero programmers (and this includes myself) who didn't initially encounter SQL and decide it was clunky and stupid and try writing their own classes to write the SQL for them. I want to think it only took me a few weeks until I understand its actual value and purpose but I'm probably misremembering my past. The worst I ever saw, though, was a coworker who tried writing his own ORM. He had one project with classes named "AND.cs" and "OR.cs". All they did was take an input string by reference and append " AND " or " OR " to it respectively. I'm sure I never before or since encountered a class that did less work.