[cfaussie] Whats so bad about the tag syntax ? was: where have all the cf developers gone ?

[Patrick Branley]

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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