I didn't mean to say your aunt was irrational. Just that I learned these techniques when debating irrational ideas from friends like "911 was orchestrated by the Bush administration..." and stuff like that.
Greg On 12/26/06, Will Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I'm gettin' ready for Christmas breakfast with my family, when my Aunt, > who works as a section chief managing programs for the travel division at > the IRS, launches at me about how bad CF sucks. She knows how much I love CF > and is aware of the things I build with it. > > I'm kinda shocked, didn't expect it. Then she says she's working with a CF > application that's throwing all these errors. She can't stand how bad it > sucks. What shocked me the most was that my aunt, who I look up to so much, > can be so ignorant of basic progamming principles. My first reaction was to > just tell her ANYthing can be written poorly by a *hitty programmer. .net, > PHP, etc. She just shook her head. I couldn't get TOO ugly because we were > literally at the table gettin' ready to eat. lol! It's like, how do you even > START with someone displaying this kinda lack of understanding??? > > I gave her a break for a while and decided to take a different approach. I > sat down with her. She started saying CF sucks. It just sucks! I can't > believe you like it. with a calm voice I said, Aunt Laura, does Java suck? > She said no! I said well, CF is Java! It compiles to Java! If you have a > crappy programmer writing the app, you're gonna have lotsa bugs. I was gonna > get into the fact that she shouldnt even be SEEING errors. I mean, she's > seeing the standard CF errors. > > That's where it ended. Dunno if I got it thru her thick head - I doubt it. > But at least she knows what's running behind CF anyway. > > Hope no one else had such a pleasurable Christmas breakfast! :) > > Will > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:264991 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
