Yes, it was a joke. And while I don't always learn specifics from Barney's or Sean's posts, I almost always find out about topics of which I've never heard. So keep it up Barney/Sean...you guys spur the rest of us onwards.
andy -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 9:59 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: referencing #application.applicationname# > Are you and Barney speaking English? I suspect this is just a joke on your part, and I'm not really addressing this response to you specifically. But the reason I'm still on this list is mostly people like Barney and Sean. When I read their posts, I'm likely to learn something I didn't know before. I may not even understand the topic they're discussing at first, but that's how we learn new things. I started programming when most programmers were building desktop applications, and concurrency wasn't usually much of an issue for them. Nowadays, of course, concurrency is an issue for all of us since we build multiuser applications. But a lot of CF programmers, in my experience, aren't prepared to understand or deal with concurrency issues - and I think this explains some of the feeling in the larger world of programming that CF is a "toy" language. Many CF developers don't understand how databases deal with concurrency, or how concurrency affects their own applications. CF developers very often don't seem to know what's going on in that larger world of programming, and we should. We don't all have to be computer scientists, but we should at least know the basics of our trade. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334144 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
