On Tuesday 11 Mar 2008, Tanguy Rademakers wrote: > atitude time and again in the CF community: when Adobe introduces new > syntax it's innovative, but when another vendor does it's disruptive. Last
Adobe 'own' CFML (the language). They can do what they like and still claim to be 'compatable'. > year some Adobe fanboy was bitching out the NA list because the syntax of > the cfthread tag is different in BD 7 and CF 8 - only to have it come to > light that NA implemented cfthread before Adobe, and that it was up to > Adobe to maintain compatibility. >From their PoV, someone else made a change to the language with out asking them (who own it). Why should they change, I suppose. > > least they could do would be to set up some sort of language standard, > > and a > > public process to get it altered. > > Unlikely, IMHO. They have nothing to gain and everything to lose. What > you're proposing just makes it easier for others to compete with them. Happier developers benefit the whole 'eco-system'. And Adobe *is* giving something like this control in other products to the community. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to elementarily incubate prospective architectures on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:301049 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
