By "the rest of the web app scripting world", I assume you're referring to Ruby-on-Rails? My personal opinion is that RoR is currently--and will remain--more hype than reality. I could be wrong, of course. Are there other examples you're thinking of in addition to RoR? Python, maybe? Again, you hear a lot of buzz about Python from certain quarters, but I just don't see it actually be used that much in real-world production environments.
A counter-example that certainly is being much more widely adopted than RoR is Visual Basic.NET, which has moved VB away from loose typing, etc., and solidly into the camp of traditional object-oriented languages, to the point that VB.NET is a serious alternative to C# for .NET development, whereas VB was previously viewed as a "toy" language. In fact, I see a very strong analogy in the VB-to-VB.NET transition to what I'd like to see happen to CFML. The problem with VB.NET is that Microsoft did it in a way that broke backwards compatibility with prior versions of VB. I think we can avoid the same mistake, and maintain full backwards compatibility as we help CFML grow-up to be a real object-oriented programming language. Vince > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Watts > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 5:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [CFCDev] Static CFC methods > ...snip... > > It does seem somewhat odd to me that CF is becoming more like > Java, while the rest of the web app scripting world is > becoming more like CF - greater emphasis on tags vs C-style > code than before, looser typing, etc. ...snip... > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber > vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in > Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern > Virginia, or on-site at your location. > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
