On 9/5/07, Sean Corfield wrote:... > purist (I've designed a couple of languages and written compilers and > interpreters so I probably have a different view of languages to most > folks :)
My posts have been compared to another language. Now to find out if the readers are parsing or compiling them... better CF programmer!). Consequently, I recommend learning unusual > stuff like Smalltalk, Prolog and Haskell... Unusual!?!?! What planet are you from, Sean? Sheesh... Fortran, man, all the way. And Lisp, and then maybe one of those AI type deals- "Make it so"- yeah, that's how one codes... Naturally. Groovy / Grails seem to be up-and-coming, or whatnot, but it doesn't really matter- Thanks to Murphy's Law, it's always the Other one. ;] Of course those ones Sean talks about are ok too, I'm just messing. I'm personally all about the cross-platform type stuff, when possible- Not that you can't find just about anything for anything these days... Well, almost anything [; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:287866 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4

