Two things wrong with Tag based code.
1. Other developers when they see ColdFusion code hate it and immediately
dismiss it as not a real language
2. You need to write about double the amount of code every time
<cfloop index="i" from="1" to="10">
</cfloop>
for (i=1; i<=10; i++) {
}
See the differences in the amount of characters typed in this simple
example.
Regards
Dale Fraser
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From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Patrick Branley
Sent: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 09:10 AM
To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com
Subject: [cfaussie] Whats so bad about the tag syntax ? was: where have all
the cf developers gone ?
I have to say i dont mind using the tag-based syntax for writing code. I
would argue rather than making CF script ECMA compliant they should make the
tag-based syntax XML valid! Who wants to write in the ugly Perl-like syntax
of Php ? And its not so much writing it as it is reading other people's code
who dont know how to comment correctly.
CF is not the only tag-based language out there. .NET has custom tags & java
has taglibs. They are a good way of writing simple logic as part of a
tag-based page.
What i think is missing from CF (and can someone confirm this is possible
with JRun / CF Enterprise ) is a way of writing java objects and deploying
them to the server on the fly just as you would write a CFC ? If so, then
its just a matter of providing some Java APIs to the existing CF
functions/tags in a java syntax (which would already exist id say, but just
arent documented)
If all of that was available then the workflow would be like this:
1. CFM pages with tag-based syntax for presenting HTML content.
2. POJO's for where you would currently use CFC's (but with the advantage of
them being instantly deployable, rather than code-complie-deploy)
Pat
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