I know ... I'm experienced in both Perl and CF. But I'd like to see a well-researched well-written factual paper that compares them, something that management would relate to. I'm in a very pro-CF and Perl-ambivalent shop now.
I disagree that they are "night and day" if you consider solely the realm of web development. The fact that CF is "tag-based" does not seem so significant a difference from Perl to me. Isn't it just a syntactic detail whether a language uses a lot of angle brackets or a lot of semicolons and curly braces? I'm more interested in a functional, practical comparison, that relates to how well each of them gets the job done, where "the job" is loosely defined as some web-server based user interface that possibly connects to databases or in some other way does something useful. (hopes that's not too vague). -----Original Message----- From: Andy Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 11:13 AM To: Tzadik Vanderhoof Cc: 'Gabor Szabo'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: comparing Perl to .... X > I have asked for this before on this list and never gotten a response, but > your post gives me the irresistable urge to do it again (it's been a while, > anyway). Does anyone know of a comparison between Perl and ColdFusion, > strictly in the domain of server-side web programming? I'm very experienced in both CF and Perl, and they are night and day. CF is a tag-based infrastructure, not unlike PHP or ASP. #!Andy -- 'Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer/author petdance.com Daddy parsley.org/quinn Jk'=~/.+/s;print((split//,$&) [unpack'C*',"n2]3%+>\"34.'%&.'^%4+!o.'"])
