Basically, this is how I see it. I know both CF and ASP. If given my choice
I would use CF over ASP in 95% of the applications I build. ASP has better
file and form handling skills in my opinion, as well as it is closer to
'real' programming. Granted I feel like I am doing 'real' programming when I
code in CF, but ASP is in a nutshell, Visual Basic.
One thing ASP has over CF is price. It is free. One thing CF has over ASP,
is it is simple, robust, and powerful. One thing that is pretty useful in
ASP is DSNless conecctions to datasources. You can access just about any
ODBC compliant data base without having to set up a DSN. On the other hande,
ASP's data access is sometimes very finicky. Basically it comes down to
personal preference.
HTH,
Clint
-----Original Message-----
From: John Westerlund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CF vs ASP
Well another thing I found out this weekend reading through my ASP 3.0 book
is two things I think are a little slow in CF. First is that you can program
functions in ASP ie
sub Calculate()
code here
end sub
I dont know what the CF response to this is, perhaps the custom template
comes closest. I suspect there is a "function" function in CF but not well
versed with it yet. The other thing I am seeing in ASP 3.0 is extensive use
of XML conversion without having to go through regex or WDDX as we do now. I
havent read the full chapter but it looks like you can pull info from a XML
data island right in ASP. There's a lot of WDDX stuff out there for CF right
now but I'd like to see XSL for CF become more easier and widespread.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bridget Corkery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 6:22 AM
Subject: CF vs ASP
> I wrote on Friday to ask for some good resources or reasons why CF is a
> better application developer than ASP. Although I did receive some really
> good references, I didn't receive nearly as much of a response as I
thought
> I would.
> The web references are great and I know that everyone is very busy so I am
> just throwing it out one more time in case anyone missed it over the
holiday
> weekend.
> I have been using CF for about 7 months and love it. However, I started
at
> a new company who initially said that using CF wouldn't be a problem. Now
> it seems that the IT department would like to standardize the products we
> use and would like to use ASP. I have found several articles comparing
the
> two, in which CF always wins; but I really need as much input, insight and
> advice that I possibly can on this issue because I am now a complete
> advocate of CF.
>
>
> Thanks very much and I apologize for sending the same issue in twice.
> Bridget
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