I can admit, I have some really sloppy code from my first years as a coder.
Everyone does, or they are just waisting too much time refactoring or needless optimization. I really had no clue whatsoever what the heck I was doing. In fact I still have no clue 9 years later though I am managing it better and have learned a lot. However most of the CFML assembled still is in production today... a huge amount of it. I would say 95% has not been touched since it was launched and probably never will. I just concentrated on making stuff work, and though I was no programmer, CFML stuff did work. Most of my code is intranet, so the public never see's the apps, or hears about them. In fact most of my work is not really even application development, it is granular code for specific purpose solutions for manufacturing and product life cycles. And-- with CFML I got stuff done, a lot of stuff, and I got that stuff done fast (RAD) which made the people who sign my checks happy. And those were the ones that mattered most. They don't care about frameworks, OO, languages, wire frames, documentation or preferences, they want solutions yesterday and for less money than the "other guy". I always took the best of what I knew the most, at that time and delivered it as fast as I could. I use .NET, asp, and Java too; Not a lot, but I do know enough about them now, that I would have never been able to do my job as well as I did if I used them exclusively. If I told a client I re factored that 5 year old X machine logging app that keeps track of a washing machine quo to a new OOP/AJAX/NUKE code base, or the latest X fad framework/sqlserver/database just because I wanted to "clean up" the code or update to .NET 3.0, I would lose the client. The CFML just works, years later. no changes. It may be dusty. But its not dead. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:329998 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
