Not really. I get great enjoyment out of watching people make fools of themselves by attacking programming languages without merit.
Matt Liotta President & CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.montarasoftware.com/ 888-408-0900 x901 > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:rob@;cardinalweb.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 3:35 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: OT:Yahoo moving to PHP > > oof, hit a sore spot eh? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Liotta [mailto:mliotta@;r337.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:19 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: OT:Yahoo moving to PHP > > > People talk shit about VB more than any other language. Most calling VB > a toy because it is easy to create applications with. Ironically, VB is > used in every Fortune 2000 company and has the largest developer base in > the world mostly because of its ease of use. > > CF seems to suffer from the same thing. It is quite simply the easiest > language to build web applications in and as such is considered a toy by > some, while many Fortune 2000 companies use CF for internal web > applications because of this. > > Matt Liotta > President & CEO > Montara Software, Inc. > http://www.montarasoftware.com/ > 888-408-0900 x901 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:info@;turnkey.to] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 3:07 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: OT:Yahoo moving to PHP > > > > > Sure they do. It all depends on who you talk to, Just like C++ vs VB > vs > > > Java > > > > > > At 01:22 PM 10/30/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > >>You know, I am so sick and tired of having to defend CF, at work to > > other > > >>developers here....... You know I don't see php, or asp people > having > > do > > >>defend using those languages..... WTF!! > > >> > > >>F%$# it I am changing career's and becoming a firefighter....... > > > > I've heard people talk about having to defend ASP ( for being cryptic > and > > not being dynamic enough -- my personal reasons for not liking it > after > > having worked with it almost exclusively for a year ) and PHP ( for > its > > background / history -- I have no clue what this means ). I probably > can't > > count the number of times I've heard people refer to VB with obvious > > disdain > > -- but it still gets a lot of use. And people complain about Java > being > > "buggy" or "flakey" with enough consistency that I can sometimes > finish > > their sentences. I've had to defend the use of JavaScript and dhtml > even > > in > > environments where it was known that the company was standardized on > IE > > and > > no-one should be using the application with anything else and there > was no > > plan to change. > > > > > > S. Isaac Dealey > > Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer > > > > www.turnkey.to > > 954-776-0046 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
