On Jan 7, 2008 9:13 AM, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it has to be compiled before it can be executed, then by definition, it > is not a scripting language. > > Right?
Wrong. Or at least not entirely accurate. Many scripting languages now have JIT compilers builtin which blurs the line. Bear in mind that CF's notion of an application is extremely loose - it's any set of requests that have been tagged with a particular string. You don't have the notion of a self-contained application. Any code on the server can also decide to run as part of your "application" and in fact you can have a request switch "applications" in mid-processing (and a useful trick it can be). You also cannot run CF - even compiled CF - without a (large) runtime system which is more typical of scripting languages. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249951 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
