[ilyak]

That's because native SQL apis in programming languages are horrible (JDBC, you are horrible).

So you want something to wrap your SQL with.

And then, you only have objects in your program, that's why it's called object oriented. So you often need to make objects from the result of your query, and manual bean fill-up is tedious. Therefore, ORMs.

On other hand, DBI is okay, so most Perl project don't use ORMs.