> Recently, though, the whole OS/Web world is in a state of (even more > than normal) change: .Net and Neo etc.
Actually, I'd argue that things are changing a lot less rapidly now than, say, a couple of years ago. All this .NET and Neo stuff is (to slightly oversimplify things) just another way to write HTML-based CGI apps. > I'm rethinking the whole thing because Vbscript is going to be dead. Why do you say this? For what it's worth, the Visual Basic syntax isn't going anywhere anytime soon. No one writes VBScript to execute within a browser, but it's fine for other scripting uses on the Windows platform (ASP, WSH). Note that you can use JavaScript any place you can use VBScript, though, so I'd recommend using JavaScript instead, unless you are or intend to be a Visual Basic programmer. > My needs I guess are defined by keeping costs down and learning and > developing quickly. I was wondering if I should go for CF mainly and > learn a bit of PHP to go with it. Fortunately for you, you have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose. I'd recommend that you start with the one that someone'll pay you to use for development, whichever that may be. CF is, in my opinion, the easiest of all of them to learn and to become productive with, but none of them are especially hard, and they all work in essentially the same way. If this is your first foray into programming, you might find a general-purpose programming language to be a better choice, rather than CF, PHP or ASP (ASP isn't really a language, but I'll lump it in here anyway). I'd recommend Python for this - it's a free scripting language just like PHP and a bunch of others, you can use it for CGI programming as well as other programming tasks, it's easier to approach and use than Java, and it's a great introduction to programming in my opinion. (Of course, who am I to say - I mainly started programming with CF.) Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
