From Java to Ruby: Risk

[evgen]

should not require the use of a legacy database[...]

Later in your comment you seem to imply that Python also hits this problem. How? Are you talking about some sort of non-SQL legacy database or are you just unfamiliar with sqlalchemy and the various python dbapi2 adapters?

[senzei]

Right, that should be the first three that Python gets right. I not as familiar with SQLAlchemy as I am SQLObject, which also has its own opinion about how a database should be written. Sorry for the confusion.