The best way to look at it is using the right tool for the job - ASP is your
phillips screwdriver - as long as you have a phillips cross head screw it is
great - CF is your flat heat screwdriver - it can do phillips cross head
screws, with a little more work, but it is flexible enough to open paint tin
lids, remove tyres, break locks, turn flat head screws etc. etc. Without
the metaphor crap - ASP is a good tool, as is CF - the real benefit of using
CF is twofold - 1) it is cross platform - you can run the same CF code on
Unix, Linux, HP and NT/2000 with little to no re-coding and 2) it is rapid -
you can write a complete publishing system in a day on it using one template
page and lots of includes!
I personally prefer CF for the above reasons, as my staff can create three
to five times as many websites using CF in the time it would take them to do
the same kind of work in ASP, JSP or SHTML.
James
(and of course Allaire don't beta test their languages on the public while
charging them for the software!!!!)
"The Force is strong in this one..." - Darth Vader
-----Original Message-----
From: Zhou, Mei Y (Mei) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 21 March 2001 12:30
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: To ASP or not to ASP
Hi, I think I am in the opposite position as you, I have worked for ASP for
more than 3 years, and now I have to learn ColdFusion. Since I do not know
CF as much as ASP,
what I can say is that:
1. ASP is much powerful for people who comes from programming background,
you can have much
flexibility for customizing your web application, but CF will be more
friendly for
people who does not want to do much by themselves instead using tags...,
e.g. you can use both VBScript/JavaScript for ASP, however, what we can use
for
CF? I have tried <CFSCript>, and from CF document, it says to look for
JavaScript like to put it there, but I do not see too much explanation
there..
2. Besides, the most important thing here for us is:
If Alliare disappear one day ( e.g. no more support for the marketing reason
), where else you can find a job?
However, if ASP disappear, e.g. C# is coming up... then, you can still use
your VBScript
and JavaScript to find yourself very marketable in the job market...
Mei
-----Original Message-----
From: Parker, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 5:34 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: To ASP or not to ASP
This is a Microsoft shop here so that makes me a lone CF'er singing the
praises and virtues of CF. One of our Small Apps Team members in IS is keen
to explore CF a bit as he is currently entirely limited to ASP. He asked me
the other day, "What makes CF better than ASP?" I said that might be an
interesting question to pose on CF-Talk (for legitimate comments, one way or
the other, without wishing to incite any flame wars :-)
****
Kevin Parker
Web Services Manager
WorkCover Corporation
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