I'm not gonna get into which is better argument, but I don't think your statement that everything in .Net takes 4 or 5 times longer is fair. I used to code exclusively CF but now my time is split 70/30 .Net. Its where 70% of my work comes from these days. And the 30% is either legacy contracts or mismanaged spaghetti coded crap (not a reflection on CF just the coders) I have to fix.
When I first started coding .Net, much like James I found myself constantly saying to myself "if .Net only did things like CF". Now I constantly find myself saying if CF only did things more like .Net. Both languages have their strong points, and I'll admit I really haven't spent much time doing hard core coding since the early days of CF6.1. My point is once you wrap your head around event driven and object oriented programming .Net is actually a really nice language to develop in. If you make the switch (not advocating it as I don't know James' situation), I really don't think you will regret it. Duane -----Original Message----- From: Maureen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 4:34 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: ASP.net as a new language. I code in both CF and .Net - there iare no one to one equivalences. It takes about 4 to 5 times as long to do a task .net as it does in CF. ...Net programmers are going to cost you more per hour than CF programmers with equivelent experience and will take many more hours to get the work done. Can you tell that I am saying "do not switch from CF to .Net". On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:30 AM, James Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are having trouble finding CF coders in our area so are thinking about > employing .net instead and moving across. I have spent the last 24 hours > pulling my hair out trying to do the simplest tasks in .net and am getting > nowhere, as far as I can tell it is a great language for complex application > development but a stupidly overcomplicated one for web development and it is > taking massive amounts of code to do the simplest little task. > > Can anyone recommend a resource that lists C#.net equivalents to CF > commands? > > Does anyone but me think using .net for web development is a stupid, STUPID > idea? > > -- > Jay > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.1/1302 - Release Date: 27/02/2008 > 16:34 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:255321 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
