Wow, It's pretty apparent that there are a lot of young programmers here on HN. I was just stating my opinion and I got downvoted because I talked bad about your precious frameworks.
The comparison between PHP and frameworks isn't valid. Writing PHP on a framework probably abstracts away SQL too, just like writing CGI in Python gives you lower-level control.
Yes, when I write a web app, I don't want to be stuck with extra code that abstracts away the database into a less-efficient object/class and forces me to break the convention of the framework to write the code that I need.
I suppose it's fine when many of then newer programmers don't even know or understand what's going on underneath anyway...
It's not really apples and oranges - writing a website in raw Ruby is not a very feasible or popular option, whereas writing a website in raw PHP is. It is valid to compare writing a site in PHP and writing a website in Rails. It is also valid to compare writing one in Cake vs. RoR, as well as Cake vs. raw PHP (or a custom PHP framework, which is what raw PHP inevitably becomes in a sufficiently large project).
guess what? You aren't going to stop me from my opinion, sorry. You sure as hell aren't stopping the mass amounts of people from down voting my above comments for merely stating my opinion on frameworks.
Feel as righteous as you want, but bitching that you got downvoted and nobody explained and then accusing random downvotes of being young amateurs is indeed boring fucking reading.
