John...I think you nailed it....show us...don't tell us ;-)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Quarto-vonTivadar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: CF Compatability
> > but please note that "substantially compatible" is different than being
> "compatible".
> >
>
> Damon,
>
> I think your compatibility point is well taken. But it would carry much
more
> weight when delivered by people outside of either camp. For example what a
> Mike Dinowitz or Hal Helms or Howie Hamlin have to say about the
> compatibility being substantially different or substantially the same,
> simply because they aren't identified as being in one camp or another.
>
> *Of course*, a MACR person is going to say that that difference makes a
> difference. And of course, a NA person is going to say that the few
> differences are differences that make no difference.
>
> Better to present the argument as you did in your third paragraph and let
> us, the paying public, decide whether the differences are substantial
> *important* or not :)
>
> other than that, I was happy to hear how much effort is going into the
> CFMX/CF5 compatibility issue. And if BlueDragon is the fire under that
pot,
> then it just goes to show that some competition is healthy!
>
> By the way, I'm dying to know what a "cess pool" test is!
>
> oh, one last comment:
>
> you'd said:
> > There are language nuances, implied behaviors and hundreds of language
and
> server subtleties that make only ColdFusion MX "compatible" with >CF5.
>
> Now are you SURE you want to make that sort of point? This is the same
sort
> of approach that got us ListLen("a,b,,,c") = 3
>
> Secret hand signs, mumbled invocations, and the blood of a chicken might
> keep the savages in line, but it rarely attracts new converts among folks
> who think for themselves. :)
>
> Give us documented features and explicit behaviour on a stable product,
> that's what CF people want.
>
>
>
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