Michael, Macromedia is pretty visible on the cf-talk list, I even think that there may be a MACR lurker on this list..
If you really want to stick with CF, how about asking someone from Macromedia to contact your boss? I'd guess you would have to be careful about the way you approach it with the boss though...can't be stepping on the old peoples toes. :) Of the languages you listed, coincidentally I think you listed them in the order of easiness (that a word?) to learn. ASP really isn't a language, you can choose JScript, Perl, and Python, as well as VBScript to write ASP code. Dotnet is apparently bringing on others too. I start to cringe thinking about developing complex apps with ASP though. Every little component costs money. PHP is cool, and the most powerful of the languages, perhaps too powerful for just web development. Knowing JSP will demand the best paycheck I think, and I just like to code Java better than anything else. It makes sense... jon Haggerty, Michael A. wrote: > Just a word on misinformation ... my boss is also a professor at the > University of Maryland and she is convinced a Macromedia rep told her Cold > Fusion is going away entirely within two years and will no longer be > supported by the company. > > The paranoia over the Death of CF does not seem to be limited to > newsgroups... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 10:39 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: which programming language? > > > >>Hey everyone, >> >>My boss here at work wants me to learn a new programming language for web >>development, as she no longer wants to support ColdFusion :-( >>I think that I will want to learn either ASP, PHP, JSP, or Perl. All I >> > know > >>about each of them is that ASP is only on Windows, PHP is for both Windows >>and Linux, JSP is based on Java, and Perl is not tag-based, but it is >> > still > >>widely used. Which ones do you use, and which would you recommend for me >> > to > >>learn, and why? >> > > ASP isn't *only* Windows. There are 3rd party apps, such as Chilisoft!ASP > that will allow ASP to run on Linux, etc. I don't know about PHP running on > Windows, but I know there is a little proggie in most Linux distros that > will convert PHP code to ASP code. JSP is based on Java kinda like ASP is > based on VB. Perl is indeed not tag based, but then again, neither is ASP > nor JSP. Perl is also mostly used in the traditional CGI style programming. > > I'm currently learning JSP. CF 6 will be "Java" based and built around > JRun, to some extent, from what I understand. CF 6 will also still accept > "normal" CF coding. If you want to hold out hopes for returning to CF, > learn JSP and convince her to get CF 6 and then you can code in either JSP, > or CF. If you want to go with the status quo, learn ASP .. specifically, > ASPX (part of Microsoft's .NET stuff). If you want to cater to Linux > developers, go with PHP and maybe Perl, though Perl would be at the bottom > of my list. > > Best bet .. learn them all, if you have time :) I would still start with > JSP though. The syntax is kinda like ASP (more than anything else) and you > can expand from it to full Java, which is an attractive buzzword these days. > > Before going through all that trouble though, a good idea might be to find > out why she doesn't want to support CF any longer. Her decision may be > based on misinformation. My company is, primarily, an MS training and > certification facility. We are MS all the way ... except for our web > development stuff. In that area, we are 80% CF 10% JSP and 10% .NET. > Little MS at all. The 10% JSP is just R&D for when NEO comes out and the > 10% .NET is "just in case we might want to expand in to that area/just in > case" sort of thing. The 3rd/4th/5th (sorry, not privy to the actual > numbers) largest MS CTEC in the US deciding on CF as its web dev app of > choice says a little about the merrits of CF, no? ;) > > Todd > > >>Thanks! >>-Brent >> > > ______________________________________________________________________ Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Training from the Source Step by Step ColdFusion http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201758474/houseoffusion Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
