That's funny. I used to be a Visual FoxPro developer and still have a lot of friends in that environment. Most of them I speak to (not all) seem to think CF is a toy. A lot of this is because of the way CF code was written through the wizards in DW. They are visual IDE oriented, and don't take the time to delve deeper. When I explain to them that CF is essentially Java and all about Eclipse and MVC frameworks and on and on, they begin to understand. But there is a deep cultural difference, and a tag -based language doesn't appeal to them for some reason.
On 11/14/06, Josh Nathanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just as a rebuttal, my girlfriend recently ran across an old friend who is > a > programmer (mostly desktop stuff I think) and when she told him I was a CF > programmer, he was impressed and said that he had heard that was the best > web programming language out there. > > Weird though, it seems like CF inspires a "love it or hate it" kind of > attitude. > > -- Josh > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Crow T. Robot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:18 AM > Subject: grrrr.... > > > >I just got off the phone with a IT company who manages the web server for > > one of our clients. This client is pretty small, non-profit, and we're > > just > > doing a little ASP project with them. In the course of our > conversation, > > he > > asked what other languages we use. I tell him CF, ASP.NET, ASP, and > PHP. > > His > > reply to me was "You still use ColdFusion? What a piece of crap!". Of > > course, I bristle any time I hear stuff like this, and I whoa'ed him up > a > > little. As we got deeper into the conversation, I found out that he was > > basing his whole experience on a legacy CF5 server install that he did a > > few > > weeks ago for a client of his. I tried and tried to explain that he's > > comparing apples to oranges when talking about modern CFMX vs. CF5, but > he > > just wouldn't hear it. I just wanted to strangle the guy. Why do IT > > people > > have such know-it-all attitudes when they clearly don't know what they > are > > talking about? Seems to only happen in our industry.can't let the other > > guy > > out-geek you, I guess. > > > > > > > > Bah - rant over. Just needed to get it out of my system. (had to do it > > via > > my alias since I'm not sure who'll read this in the future.) > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:260366 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
