On 11/23/05, Munson, Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, thanks Sean. Your concern makes total sense.
Cool! > I really need to get > into FB here soon so I can stop asking ignorant questions. ;) Those are not ignorant questions Jacob! A lot of people avoid frameworks because they feel that the frameworks will get in the way of what they want to do or limit how they write their application. There's a different trade off when you use a framework: you give up some "freedom of expression" (for want of a better phrase) and in return you get structure and standardization and, hopefully, a leg up on solving certain common problems. Some people do feel that frameworks inherently limit the complexity of your application but that's mostly a matter of idiom - the framework simply requires that you do something in a particular manner so you just have to figure out the idiomatic way to program a specific piece of complexity. If a code generator doesn't support some specific scenario, it's usually not possible to program around it - you have to throw away (some of) the generated code and write it yourself. Worse, if you modify the generated code and then need to change the initial parameters, very few generators will preserve your changes in the generated code. The generators in Rails, for example, are little more than a standard template file run through a find'n'replace - you generate once then modify the result to build your app. The CFC wizard and snippets in CFEclipse can do much the same... -- Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/ Got frameworks? "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:225113 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
