I loved this man, awesome. > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:08 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: If programming languages were religions > > I heavily disagree. ColdFusion looked at an area that was > arcane and foreboding to the average person, innovated it in > a way that was friendly to people and never died. It's been > ridiculed for ages but we don't care. Every innovation we've > made has been copied which makes us the innovator, not the duplicator. > > So what religion took a concept from experts only to the > masses? What religion has been denigrated almost since day > one. What religion has been copied again and again and again? > What religion is still around after being declared dead for > years. To be egotistical, it sounds a lot like Judaism to me. > Post Temple Judaism, but... :) > > Of course, Adobe owning CF is more like a central religious > hierarchy which is anything but Judaism. 5 Jews gets you 6 > answers if your lucky. 8 if not and 3 extra questions if it's > a day ending in a y. > > Oh, the original site was wrong, Judaism accepts converts. > > As for the oo crowd, that's just a bunch of loud voices, not > a mass of people. There are oo followers, but those are just > people following the rulebook (laypeople?) rather than > singing with/in the choir. The same could have be said for > the framework crowd but it's grown beyond the elite speakers > to be picked up by the masses. Now everyone can and will > speak on their framework dejure. > Arguments over tools (homesite, cfeclipse, etc.) is > hairsplitting, not dogma. > There are a few splits in the religion but they're not all > the same. Ralio is more of a sect which wants things to be > free-er, wants to keep to the rules, wants the rules to > accept it and has a certain agenda (hibernate). > It's a friendly sect but still not the main line. Bluedragon > on the other hand is heresy. It's missionary tactics have > always bothered the orthodox. > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:24 AM, LRSScout <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think we win the Islamic title. > > > > ColdFusion took something that already existed (Islam took from > > Christianity and Judaism) formed something that started out vibrant > > and incredible (early Islam was open-minded and scientific) but > > eventually splintered into warring camps (oo vs framework > of the week, > > vs. spaghetti code or other stuff in the > > community) producing loud closed minded followers on all sides. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Vivec [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:16 AM > > > To: cf-community > > > Subject: Re: If programming languages were religions > > > > > > atheist. > > > > > > eee hee hee hee > > > > > > >:) > > > > > > 2008/12/17 Sandra Clark <[email protected]> > > > > > > > What would ColdFusion be? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://tinyurl.com/67tpdf > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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