On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:27 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, since you asked :)
Those are all great things, but not necessarily over CF. CF is aimed at the web. Java is aimed at, what, security? Something like that. Distributed processes and whatnot. I think you'd have a tuffer time "hardening" a ruby app than a CF app. With flexibility comes, well, flexibility. The folding tripod might do much of what the "solid" tripod does, but it can't hold as much weight. Basically it's all about the right tool for the job, and perhaps even about coding/thinking in a way that makes swapping tools and languages not such a big deal. Perhaps. Depends on reality, which isn't a sure bet, sorta (which is why it's so fun, maybe). There's nothing wrong with discarding stuff either. You still garnered some type of knowledge from the experience. "Maybe you'll really only use it that once, anyways", or other sentiments of the kind. Throwaway code, although of course some throwaway code is probably powering most of the interweb. So. Um. yeah. I'll tell you though, the tools for hibernate (a java based ORM) are AWESOME! And "free". Spring can do amazing things too. Crap, I think I'm sliding towards java. Oh well, great tools. Round trip UML and whatnot... course, when you get into that stuff, coding for multiple languages isn't to crazy to do. Plenty of tools to help with that, as well. Guess it all depends on what you want to do today, and where you want to go tomorrow-- sometime where you'll be, or want to be, in 10 years (but that's pretty crazy! (As in "not average" or maybe "not normal". Much as we pretend it is.)). You could build Rome out of legos, if you wanted to. And I personally would think it was pretty cool. (So long as it wasn't made out of the "bad" plastics. Heh!) Might take longer on the grand scale though, than another material. But hell, these ARE computers. We can do whatever the heck we want to with 'em. Make a lego-building builder, and whatnot. :-) So whatever floats your boat! -- "I would love to do this because I love all my fans, with them waving and I'm waving back, ... It's good to do that." Bo Diddley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:261151 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
