> Sure, terminology is important but it is far too often > treated as the most important thing and it's not. If > you said: > > "hand me the hammer" > vs > "hand me that tool with the wooden handle and the metal > smasher for banging nails" > > I'm human, i'd figure it out.
That's fine, conversationally. Scale that up across a larger and larger group, and you'd have bigger and bigger problems. The If nothing else, you'd get really tired of saying "hand me that tool with the wooden handle and the metal smasher for banging nails" over and over again. The dumb literalists in the group wouldn't understand that you meant to also include the tool with the fiberglass hammer, and the tack driver, and so on. > The name "hammer" is not the important part. My association > to your description is the important part, terminology just > shortens that description. Some people call Fusebox a > methodology because it's a method of building their software, > fine. Whereas others call it a framework, because the core > files offer a framework for managing their code, that's fine > too. No one is going to get a full definition of Fusebox > from a single word, so why get so hung up on that? This sounds like the "Humpty Dumpty" argument - a word means exactly what you want it to mean, no more and no less! The problem here is that, if someone asks you about your methodology, and you tell them about your framework, everyone will be confused, because they are different concepts. If you want a word to mean everything, it'll mean nothing in the end. Fusebox - it's a dessert topping AND a floor wax! I'm hung up on that, as you put it, because in my experience so many CF developers think that as long as they adhere to the Fusebox "standard", to the extent that it is a standard, all their design problems are solved, and everything else is a "simple matter of coding". Of course, also in my experience, this turns out not to be the case. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (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
