Well, no, not at all. CF has been around for a rather long time and never had a committee to define the language. The work of this particular committee had some effect, helping make some changes late in the CF9 development cycle and some changes in Railo and OpenBD I believe, but by and large it just reverts back to the state things were in a year or so ago. And that state was really quite good. I mean, Adobe is hard at work on Coldfusion X, Railo will be releasing 3.2 soonish and has an awesome looking roadmap for 4.0. OpenBD has released some cool new stuff recently and I'm sure has more planned.
The big promise of the committee effort was to try and make a smooth roadmap for the core language so that things like a for-in loop over an array worked the same in all cfml engines. And with Java 7 adding in functional language support, I know that Railo will be adding closures (and probably anonymous functions) and I'm sure that Adobe and OpenBD will at some point as well. What would have been nice is if the committee could have worked out an agreed upon syntax *before* the launch of each supporting engine version so that it just worked. Now it probably means that there will be a few more quirks and inconsistencies between cfml engines. Not the end of the world by any means, just makes it a little bit harder for your average developer if you want to make things works cleanly across cfml engines, kind of like when you are writing CSS and Javascript that needs to support multiple browsers. Would it be awesome if IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera all got together and made the basic stuff all work the same? Yes it would. But it doesn't, though it has gradually gotten better as the language and the browsers have matured. Same thing is/will likely be true with the various cfml engines. Would be awesome if they worked together on the core language, but if not, we'll live and figure it out and as they all mature, the core language will mostly settle down in compatibility. Cheers, Judah On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Arsalan Tariq Keen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does this mean CFML is or will be dying ????? > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Mark Drew" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 9:19 PM > To: "cf-talk" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Adobe no longer part of the OpenCFML committee > >> >> Well, is Ben not part of it too? >> >> Just saying >> >> MD >> On 23 Jul 2010, at 17:06, Cutter (ColdFusion) wrote: >> >>> >>> http://www.adrocknaphobia.com/post.cfm/adobe-no-longer-part-of-opencfml >>> >>> Steve "Cutter" Blades >>> Adobe Community Professional - ColdFusion >>> Adobe Certified Professional >>> Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer >>> >>> Co-Author of "Learning Ext JS" >>> http://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js/book >>> _____________________________ >>> http://blog.cutterscrossing.com >>> >>> >>> >>> Dan Baughman wrote: >>>> Is there an official adobe announcement that it pulled out? >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Sean Corfield >>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Gerald Guido <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>>> Or support for Amazon Web services: S3 (well before Adobe did), >>>>>>>> >>>>>> My bad. Before I get a public tongue lashing... I got Railo mixed up >>>>>> >>>>> with >>>>> >>>>>> OBD with the S3 support. >>>>>> >>>>> Yup, Railo introduced the concept of "resources" quite a long time ago >>>>> (in Railo 2.0, back in 2007) that allows standard file tags to work >>>>> with ram, S3, ZIP files, FTP sites and even database tables. >>>>> -- >>>>> Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN >>>>> Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ >>>>> An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ >>>>> >>>>> "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." >>>>> -- Margaret Atwo >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:335706 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
