Maybe you are not related? :-) But ultimately, who cares, her opinion is only going to be her burden.
"This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -----Original Message----- From: Will Tomlinson To: CF-Talk Sent: Tue Dec 26 12:35:05 2006 Subject: CF Gets Slammed at Christmas Breakfast So I'm gettin' ready for Christmas breakfast with my family, when my Aunt, who works as a section chief managing programs for the travel division at the IRS, launches at me about how bad CF sucks. She knows how much I love CF and is aware of the things I build with it. I'm kinda shocked, didn't expect it. Then she says she's working with a CF application that's throwing all these errors. She can't stand how bad it sucks. What shocked me the most was that my aunt, who I look up to so much, can be so ignorant of basic progamming principles. My first reaction was to just tell her ANYthing can be written poorly by a *hitty programmer. .net, PHP, etc. She just shook her head. I couldn't get TOO ugly because we were literally at the table gettin' ready to eat. lol! It's like, how do you even START with someone displaying this kinda lack of understanding??? I gave her a break for a while and decided to take a different approach. I sat down with her. She started saying CF sucks. It just sucks! I can't believe you like it. with a calm voice I said, Aunt Laura, does Java suck? She said no! I said well, CF is Java! It compiles to Java! If you have a crappy programmer writing the app, you're gonna have lotsa bugs. I was gonna get into the fact that she shouldnt even be SEEING errors. I mean, she's seeing the standard CF errors. That's where it ended. Dunno if I got it thru her thick head - I doubt it. But at least she knows what's running behind CF anyway. Hope no one else had such a pleasurable Christmas breakfast! :) Will ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:264996 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
