so ten years from now
Yes! Ahh, now there is a blast from the past! The Allaire brothers and Cold
Fusion
I used to be a ColdFusion devotee on the ol' House of Fusion CFTalk lists. I
had some cool
CF routines for displaying and downloading web documents and for making
databases sing
an' stuff... Those were the days..
Some things stay the same, just the perspective changes
Richard Kern
-----Original Message-----
From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 11:24 AM
To: Fusebox
Subject: RE: Your Next Language
Yes! Ahh, now there is a blast from the past! Don Lancaster and PostScript.
I used to be a PostScript devotee on the ol' Genie network. I had some cool
PostScript routines for autonumbering documents for making raffle tickets
an' stuff... Those were the days...
But to be sure, even though a human can code raw PostScript that takes up 1K
to do what machine-compiled PostScript does in 100K, I'd still rather let
the machine compile it. Move the clock from 1991 to 2001, and it's still the
same. I could suffer through learning Java, but if CF is gonna compile it
for me, I'll concentrate my efforts on delivering solutions, and let the
application write the underlying program code.
Alan McCollough
Web Programmer
Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
Alaska Native Medical Center
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Kern [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 9:13 AM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: Your Next Language
>
> now, now, raw postscript with Don Lancasters routines is where I first
> really started programming, Give me an intelligent postscript printer to
> talk to and I can give you my books!
>
> So there are some of us who investigate the dustbunnies under the bed.
>
> Re Java, having taught classes in same and bounced off the brick walls in
> learning and still learning it. Unforgiving is putting it mildly. Java
> has
> a very steep learning curve and the expense of writing programs in Java
> requires a company with industrial strength backing and money pockets for
> a
> Java project. You don't do it in a one or five man shop or for a small
> business. Best tools for the requirement puts Java in the driver seat for
> distributed applications, intranet applications and communications
> handling.
> It's unwieldly and overkill for most web applications and web sites.
> Doing
> the job faster and at a lower cost is the reason for CF and if done right
> it
> scales to the point that a company will have the choice in the future to
> convert to Java if the need arises. With that said my chosen direction is
> CF, XML and Java, to become a master of those three and keep my eyes open.
>
> Richard Kern
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:11 AM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: Your Next Language
>
>
> If "Neo" is going to write the Java for me, why would I bother learning
> it?
> After all, CF pages in 4.5 are parsed into C++ (right?), and I haven't
> bothered learning that, either.
>
> As a developer, a solution provider if you will, I don't feel compelled to
> learn every language that comes my way. Y'all own laser printers? Inkjet
> printers? And what? None of you know how to write raw PCL or PostScript!
> What savages!
>
> Alan McCollough
> Web Programmer
> Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
> Alaska Native Medical Center
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roger B. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 8:32 PM
> > To: Fusebox
> > Subject: RE: Your Next Language
> >
> {redacted}
>
> > And if you're fond of Allaire and their tech roadmap, learning Java
> would
> > be
> > a handy way of picking up a new skill whille buttressing the ones you
> > already have.
> >
> {redacted}
>
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