Oh god....someone posted this to CF-Talk.....I know we probably all belong
to CF-Talk, so you saw it,...but now I am curious about any OT reasons
people may have, rants that they might not necessarily put over on CF-Talk.
(I for one am afraid of inciting any wars over there... <g> ... over here,
well, I get such a warm fuzzy feeling over here.....)
I enjoy other languages myself. I'm not afraid of diving into Perl or ASP or
even Java....I just don't prefer it. Not when productivity is such an issue
and we are just a small company without the financial backing to have dozens
of programmers at our beck and call, on salary...sitting around waiting for
the projects to roll in.
If a client needs us to do ASP or Perl or JSP or PHP, we'll find the right
resources to get the job done. But, if we have a choice, then I believe, as
most of us do, that CF is the right tool, and will be for some time,
providing, Macromedia does its job right and keeps it at the forefront.
Making people aware of its existance is key.
It's posts like these from this guy that bring little fingers of doubt, out
from under the covers....wiggling and waggling...saying...."hmmmm...maybe he
has a point. Oh no. Should we change? Should we keep going?" Then I bring
out the big Sledgehammer, and BAM!BAM!BAM! Smash them to smithereens and go
about my merry way. Or is this just running away from a potential problem?
What's everyone else's opinion?
Erika
"Friendship is never an accident. It is always the result of high
intentions, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution. It
represents the wise choice of many alternatives." - unknown
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Grossberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 3:28 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Is CF still relevant?
Now, before you dismiss this as a troll, please let me elaborate. This isn't
so much an instigation or a whine as it is a call for us to take a step back
and reevalutate things periodically.
Over the course of my career as a web programmer/developer, I have worked
with a variety of sever-side languages and technologies: ColdFusion, ASP,
JSP, PHP, Perl and Python. I like some more than others, but I'm not an
evangelist for any; they each have their uses. And I recognize some of CF's
strengths: easy to learn for people who know only tag-based HTML or don't
have significant programming experience; built-in admin tool; specialized
editor; comes with pre-built tags and web-based administrator. There are
also major flaws: broken/sketchy tags; no XML parsing; not OOP; relatively
small community; etc.
Right now, I work at a web development firm that is primarily "a CF house"
(besides me). Our more senior programmers are looking at honing their CF
skills, while our less experienced webmasters are trying to learn
ColdFusion. But, I can't help but wonder whether they are wasting their
time. Would they be better off spending their time learning ASP, Java or
another non-CF solution? Why or why not?
And how would we tell if and when it was time to give up CF and try
something else, as all but the most stubborn experts in also-ran languages
(Ada, SmallTalk), applications (Netscape, Lotus Notes) and Operating Systems
(Amiga) have resignedly done?
Lastly, why do *you* still use CF? Is it because it's what you're best at,
and you don't want to try something new (where, temporarily, you'd be a
novice again)? Is it because your ccompany's legacy code is all in CF? Is it
because you genuinely think that ColdFusion is, generally speaking, the best
solution for web application development in 2001?
Joe
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