Coldfusion, is what you want it to be. CFML - is Coldfusion Markup Language, as an extension to HTML. And is described as a server side scripting language.
Regardless, of its history in C++/Java by all definitions it is a Scripting Language. Visual Basic, is a scripting language by definition. However when do you not call it as that, when it is compiled? The source is still a script. On 1/8/08, Ben Doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rick Root wrote: > > On 1/7/08, Ben Doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Coldfusion applications are not scripts. They're programs. Applications. > >> I should point out that they used to be. > > > > Personally, I've never considered them to be "scripts"... > > Well, I can't help it if you're ignorant. :-) > > >>> "A set of commands written in an interpreted language to automate > >>> certain application tasks." > >> CF5 and lower were interpreted. CF6+ are byte-compiled, but into Java > >> Machine Code, which is semi-interpreted (JIT). > > > > True, but "to automate certain application tasks" does not apply.. not > > really. > > ....You don't use CF for any sort of automation? Automatic billing? > Automatic logging? To automate the storage/retrieval/manipulation of > user data? It seems to me that "to automate certain application tasks" > is so vague as to be pretty meaningless. > > >>> "An application that the server runs at specific times." > >> CFSchedule? > > > > Yes. Do you run an auction web site entirely via cfschedule? =) > > No, but I run the billing for various subscription sites that way. I > also am going to write log file and DB backup removal scripts that way. > So... I use it quite a bit, really. > > >> --Ben "The Devil's Advocate" Doom > > > > Lawyer's suck :) > > IANAL. I'm just anal about vocabulary. :-) > > --BenD > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249943 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
