Doesn't Linq to SQL miss the point? Aren't ORM-mappers (SubSonic, etc.) sub-optimal solutions?

Question

I\'d like the community\'s take on some thoughts I\'ve had about Linq to Sql and other ORM mappers.

I like Linq to Sql and the idea of expressing data access logic (

Answer 1

I don't like any of the current solutions - but i prefer more choices over less choices ;-)

i used an OODBMS in a project long ago that was the closest to getting it right (unfortunatley the product had some heinous bugs and terrible tech support) - object persistence was largely invisible, handled behind the scenes (via preprocessor code-generator) and controlled by very simple Update, Delete, and Find methods and simple containers.

I'd love to see this (and perhaps some object-entity model does this well already) again, with OCL (Object Constraint Language) as the native multi-object query language