Hal asked me to send this reply for him: >I wish I knew how to make Fusebox 3 clearer to folks. Part of the >problem is our fault: there hasn't been enough clear documentation >available. That is partially solved. John Q and I wrote a book called >"Discovering Fusebox 3" at techspedition.com. Jeff Peters and Nat >Papovich wrote one called "Fusebox: Developing ColdFusion Applications". >We also are working on putting out a specification in the manner of >Sun's docs, which will be free. > >Part of the problem is that Fusebox 3 tackles tougher issues and does >more than FB2. So we have the age-old trade-off between powerful and >easy to use. I personally think FB3 does a danged good job of balancing >the two. A lot of people agree, but obviously, not everyone does. > >As to the bad code Michael speaks of, well, I think that's true whether >one uses FB or not. I don't think that people set out with the >intention, "Let's write some really crummy code!" They just don't know >any better. In fact, at one point, none of us knew any better. A good >deal of this has to be laid at the doorstep of Macromedia's >documentation, which is, to be highly charitable, "minimalist". > >I'm not hoping to convert anyone to Fusebox. As someone pointed out, >it's not a religion. It may not coincide with the way some people's >minds work. There has to be a match there or it will always feel odd and >foreign. When I was involved in Smalltalk, this issue of non-matching >mental models made it very difficult for some people to really use OO to >its fullest. It didn't mean those developers were deficient--just that >OO might not have been the best choice for them. > >On the other hand, a large community of people have poked and prodded it >and all that testing and suggestions have made it, to my mind, an >excellent way to go.
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