On Sunday 08/13/2000 12:06 AM +0000, Chris Stendall wrote:
>It seems all I used to hear about was ASP. Now all I hear about is PHP.
Strictly speaking, ASP and CF are both application servers, while PHP is a
scripting language per se.
>But if PHP does the same thing for free (I don't know it yet),
>nobody is going to buy CF.
It really doesn't do the same thing, but there is a lot of equivalent
functionality. CF, though, makes for a more disciplined environment.
>Now I am wondering if CF has a future. I can't learn anything before
>it becomes obsolete...
I think it has a future and the future is Java or some such. I fully expect
a synthesis of CF and Allaire Java tools into a successor environment. PHP,
Python, and the like will be supporting, but important, players in that
environment.
For me, the really interesting open source initiative is Zope (a
Python-based app server). If that matures in a timely fashion it could give
ASP and CF fits.
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