learn* -- and you don't have to buy anything but a good book.
* you can use powerful, meaningful, readable commands without all the
setup/prep/clutter of most languages -- I particularly like CF's
ability to query a db and display the results with 2 CF statements --
no connections, no includes, no init code -- just get to the meat of
the problem
I have used a lot of languages (ASM, SOAP (circa 1958). ForTran, CoBOL,
RPG, AlGol, PL/I, APL, Pascal, Tiny C, Forth, BASIC, Perl, ASP, JSP,
Java, and a few I can't remember-- especially the one with all the
parenthesis)).
CFML beats them all-- and you don't (necessarily) outgrow it -- just
gets better/easier the more you learn/use it.
If you can't/won't invest $50 for a good book on CF, then you aren't
comitted enpough to learn it.
Dick
P.S. My first intro to CF was the Classic -- Ben's (and a few
others-- you know who you are) CFWACK, version 3.0 second edition -- by
far the best book of this type that I have ever read!
On Feb 9, 2004, at 1:23 PM, Dave Watts wrote:
> > Which language would you recommend? I don't think that is
> > silly, I knew C++ and java before I started messing with
> > CF and found cf very easy to pickup due to the prior knowledge.
>
> I would go with either Python or C#, I think - both are good
> introductory
> programming languages, there are very good primers for each, and you
> don't
> have to go out and buy anything to get started.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> phone: 202-797-5496
> fax: 202-797-5444
>
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