I, for one, learned to get off Dave's lawn years ago :) Btw, Dave, if I haven't mentioned it recently, thank you for all you do for the community and I definitely owe you a beverage of your choice if we happen to find ourselves in the same part of the country at the same time one of these days.
Cheers, Judah On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Dave Watts <dwa...@figleaf.com> wrote: > >> I wish the Pollyanna approach were productive, but it is not. If there are >> no new adopters of the language, it will die out. As simpe as that. > > That is certainly true. However, there are new CF developers all the > time. I know, because my company hires people to do CF work. One nice > thing about this is, you don't have to hire people with CF experience > - if you know PHP or .NET or whatever, you can certainly do CF > development. So, I expect things will continue in this vein just as > they have in the past. I wouldn't characterize this as a "Pollyanna" > approach, just an observation made after reading the same arguments > you're making EVERY DAMN YEAR ON THIS LIST FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS. At > this rate, I expect that your kids will be making the same argument to > Ray's kids some day. > >> That's not a good strategy as seen by the stagnant CF community. Perhaps if >> Adobe made CF more attractive (not better - my argument >> is not against CF or its capabilities), people would feel paying for it was >> a good idea. I know - I paid for it as a beginner. I'm optimistic that >> there are many others like me. > > Adobe will do what they will do. I don't really have any control over > that, do you? Unless you're a secret majority shareholder, I'm > guessing the answer is no. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > http://training.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on > GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348620 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
