This was an interesting discussion piece to read. I made a blog post on this article which detail my views
http://www.mutantweb.net/ To summarize, ColdFusion is great at doing some things, but is very poor at doing others. I'm a bit biased because I've been a .NET Developer most of my life and have just recently got into coldfusion. Is CF used as much as ..NET/PHP? Probably not, but by no means is ColdFusion a dead language. As long as Adobe supports it and developers are writing it, it will still be alive and kicking. --Ken On 5/26/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In all fairness, > > All the best programmers I've ever met have been self educated or > hobbyists > turned professional. > > I've never considered academic studies in any fast moving industry a > particularly good way to spend time, the curriculum is so out of date that > the skills you learn have no relevance to the current industry when you > finally graduate from the course. Short term or self study courses from > platform providers such as Adobe and Microsoft make fair sense to me as > the > skills learned are so focused and the skills are relevant and useful. > > Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Paul Ashenfelter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 May 2007 20:52 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Absolutely amazing article - who the hell writes this stuff? > > On 5/25/07, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But you'd never see an OS written in PHP or Ruby either. That > > > argument doesn't hold water. > > > > I don't think PHP would be a good choice for teaching basic programming, > > either. Ruby would be suitable for that, on the other hand. > > For instance, http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_ltp/index.html > (Learning to Program, by Chris Pine, which happens to teach > programming using Ruby) > > Heck, MIT uses Scheme http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/scheme/ to > teach programming, right? And if memory serves, in many(?) European > schools they use OCaml to teaching. Pascal used to be the one back in > my day, but I'm sure by now none of you care much about what I think > about programming :) > > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > > > This email has been processed by SmoothZap - www.smoothwall.net > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-OT/message.cfm/messageid:373 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-OT/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.29
