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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:282778 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
