In 5 years of full-time CF development I have yet to pay for a CF tag ;-) (read as "haven't needed to"...not "stolen them left right and center"...hehe)
Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com --------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luis Lebron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:08 PM Subject: RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed? > I think that while it may be true that their is a lot of code for CF, there > is not a lot of free or open source code for CF. This is one place where PHP > or Perl have an advantage. > > > Luis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:04 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed? > > > > I think you're all missing the point if you think that more code = > > longer development time. > > > > Remember, for PHP, there are massive script archives out there with > > example code you can just grab and use. Even the function docs at > > php.net are collaborative... a technique Macromedia has tried to > > co-opt. > > Actually let's reverse that... The livedocs system in use at Macromedia > was in use at Allaire in, I think 1998 (around when CF 3 had come out I > think, but perhaps CF 4). > > It's a good idea and I think that everybody should co opt it, but when > you shout > "co-opted" then let's be sure who did what. > > > Any good developer has the basics (db connections, that sort of thing) > > > socked away in a little archive somewhere to reuse. > > This is true of any decent language... And has been one of the greatest > strengths of CF for many years now. The official tag gallery is only a > stratching of the surface. Sites like cflib.org, CFCZone.org, cfXtras, > Cfcustomtags.com and so forth are also taking on their niches with a > force. > > For any language the concept of "build-once, use often" hold true. > However with PHP there is a sense that some very common tasks require > that. > > The goal of CF from the start has been abstraction of complexity and the > 80/20 rule. Any functionality user commonly in Web Applications is made > insanely simple in CF. > > This means that some rarely used functionality is left out (like direct > socket access) but the point is that that IS rarely used. For those > that used functionality CF has made itself the most adaptable of > languages: CFXs (in Java, C or Delphi), COM, CORBA, JSP Tags, Java > Classes, etc. > > So CF also takes advantage of the code libraries and component archives > of many other languages. > > Basically there's more crap out there that'll run on CF than any other > language period. > > Jim Davis > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
