Probably too late for this but...

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2004/03/25.html

(...)
We had an interesting conversation about how the impedance mismatch between
contemporary high-level programming languages (Java, C#, Python, VB) and
relational databases. Since a huge percentage of code requires access to
databases, the glue (a.k.a. the connecticazoint) between the RDBMS layer and
the application code is very important, yet virtually every modern
programming language assumes that RDBMS access is something that can be left
to libraries.
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Julio César Carrascal Urquijo.

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