> I have some very personal opinions on this. > > While I really love CF, I would not use CFML to teach > programming in schools; for similar reasons I would not use > Perl either. I would pick something like Python or Ruby, then > move to Java or C#. > > I often tell people that CFML is a great choice if you want > to be productive, not so good if your ultimate goal is to > learn programming. You better learn programming with another > language (even something like Pascal) and move to CFML later. > > In italian universities there are topics considered > "propedeutici" (I guess english translation should be > "propaedeutic"). It means they are the basics that allow you > to move more easily into more advanced topics, bigger and > better things, at a later stage. I don't think CFML could be > propaedeutic for programming students. > > On the other hand, if you don't care about programming but > just want to be productive asap, CFML is a great choice. > > Again, this is just my own opinion, nothing more.
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