Maybe it's because I am not a "programmer" per se, but I have found very
little todate to dissuade me from using ColdFusion in favor PHP (or any
other development language).
Granted, there are benefits to PHP, etc. I simply do not have the time to do
all this code writing and custom developing - we just make applications that
work, over 100 to date, all in CF with a small (I mean minute) smattering of
Perl and JavaScript. There is very little we have been unable to accomplish
with CF at a third of the time it takes Perl and other programmers to do the
same.
I often think it is that the "programmers" out there want to protect
themselves, who can blame them. But when I can take a biology or art student
for a summer and having them building simple web-based, database backend
systems in weeks, well, that sells CF to me. For the more advanced users,
the actual full-time staff, we use all of the CF features (scripting, etc.)
and have no problems. We have fairly robust applications running which
handle everything from online application to the university to managing
millions of dollars in sponsored research, proposal and award tracking,
costsharing, passthrus, you name it.
Anyway, my thoughts.
Gary McNeel, Jr.
Project Manager - DAC-Net, Research & Graduate Studies
Rice University - Houston
[Lovett Hall] 713-348-6266 (Primary)
[DAC] 713-348-5184
[M] 713-962-0885
[H] 713-723-9240
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre
minds."
-Albert Einstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dain Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 2:40 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: cf vs php
>
>
> I found an interesting article on comparison of the two:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=95602167412542&w=1
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Adam Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 2:04 PM
> Subject: cf vs php
>
>
> > I've seen a lot of "cf vs asp" stuff floating around, but I was
> wondering
> if
> > anybody had seen anything about cf vs php. It seems like it
> would be good
> > scripting language to pick up only because everything you need to run a
> php
> > application is free excluding the minimal amount of hardware you would
> need.
> > It appears to resemble coldfusion more than asp does so I'm wondering if
> > anybody has had any experience with comparing the two.
> >
> >
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