I tend to agree with this perspective. CFML is so good at what it does, when we as web developers are tasked with something completely different, we tend to want to bend and shape CF in order to perform tasks it is not particularly well suited to do.

It used to be that this was restricted more to the individual developer, but it seems more and more that new, official versions of CF are being packaged with these "tweaks", and presented as core functionality within the language.  It's not always better to do more, if you can't do more, better.

Brian
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Matt Liotta
  To: CF-Talk
  Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 12:42 PM
  Subject: RE: BLACKSTONE: Software Development Times Article

  <snip>
  I disagree. CFML is well suited for what it was designed for. In fact, I
  would go as far as to say that CFML is the best scripting language available
  for web-based projects. However, don't confuse how wonderful CFML is in the
  web world with its potential in other application domains. Each tool has its
  place and it is important to understand where CFML fits in.

  -Matt
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