> Mostly I'm talking about FuseBox as a way to get everyone > writing code the same way - so that if person B picks up > where person A left off, they can find their way. And again, > I'm not plugging FuseBox - ANY reasonable way of organizing > your code is better than none. And I've seen plenty of 'none' > in the past five years.
That's hardly a ringing endorsement of Fusebox. Frankly, for most applications, it's simple enough to organize CFML code by directory based on functionality - a practice which long predates Fusebox. > And since HTML and other tag-based models are so prevalent, > I think old fashioned geeks like me have to start thinking > that tag based programming is just different - not more or > less elegant than OO programming... Well, there's no need to place tag-based and OO languages at opposing positions. You could certainly have a tag-based OO language. It's worth noting that elegance is a matter of aesthetics more than anything else, and thus a matter of personal opinion. Many developers, myself included, simply find tag-based languages to be clunky when you're doing anything other than generating HTML output. Fortunately, that's a big part of what you do with CF, but if you contrast CF with J2EE apps, in which you use a tag-based language - JSP - for the output, and "regular" Java for the rest, well, that's an appealing approach from a perspective of aesthetics, I think. Unfortunately, it's outweighed by the sheer complexity of Java compared with CF, in my opinion; I'm willing to sacrifice aesthetics for efficiency. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm 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
