It only gets worse the longer you work with ColdFusion. Where I work were finally working towards abandoning it completely.
Some paint points: * No null value, you get a bunch of methods to check various types of objects to see if they are "undefined" * You can only specify return types of the core objects provided by ColdFusion * No method overloading * Calling a method or function is usually about half a dozen lines of code. * Same with actually creating an object/component * <cfthis <cfthat gets really old and since the language doesn't have a schema definition for its tags (would be impossible because its not valid xml to begin with) you don't get decent IDE support. * No build or deployment tools (unless copying files ftp counts). You have to create your own. On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Jamie Swain <jpsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I know this is an unusual question for this list, but I was hoping > that I could get some viewpoints and info about something. I recently > interviewed for a job opportunity at a company that runs their core > app, comprised of both web interface and web services, in a cool niche > that I would like to work in. > > Also the company seems very cool over all. It's a nice size, a small > development team, and the guys I met seemed really good. > > The big problem is that I'd be working mostly in ColdFusion. When > they told me that in the initial, pre-interview email, I thought jeez > is anybody using that still. I had never had any hands-on experience > with it, so I spent the weekend with a decent book working through > some exercises on my laptop. What I found was that my initial > impression was, "this language sucks, it is a pain to use." I admit > this is only after spending about 3 days with CF and I really didn't > go into it with my mind wide open. > > So, my question would be, if anyone here has experience with CF, is it > really as bad as it seems? As someone with a passionate, nearly > religious fondness of Wicket, will I hate every minute of CF as much > as I fear I might? Is there any chance that after trying to accept > some of the things I already don't like that I will find that I can > still enjoy programming a cool product even if the underlying system > sucks? > > Thanks for any info/thoughts! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > >
