Having discussed different aspects of simplicity in programming solutions, let's start with the first topic that should be scrutinized regarding their simplicity: persisting model objects. As you may know, we have competing solutions which fall into two categories: they will follow either the Active Record (AR) or the Data Mapper pattern (DM) (as described in Martin Fowler's "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture", abbrev. PoEAA).

"As I'm becoming a more experienced programmer, I tend to prefer simple solutions." Or something similar. As is the case with many programming-related quotes, this is somewhat of a blanket statement because who doesn't prefer simple solutions? To make it a powerful statement again, you'd have to explain what a simple solution is, and how you distinguish it from not-so-simple solutions. So the million-dollar question is "What is a simple solution?", and I'll answer it now.

Just kidding. But I do have some ideas about this.

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