To make a generalisation, does that mean that most of the OO CF want to be java programmers?
(And I'm asking as a java dev turned cf dev turned java dev) Dale Fraser wrote: > After reading a Blog Entry of Ray Camden, in a general comment, he made this > statement. > > "CF is not OO. CF should NOT be OO. And lastly, I pray to God that CF never > becomes OO." > > I didn't agree, I actually think ColdFusion is OO, and thought that view > especially from Ray was odd, then I thought, well perhaps I have it wrong, > perhaps CF is not OO and i'm the only one who thinks it is. So I ran a > Survey, posted to both cftalk and cfaussie. > > The results are quite interesting. > > 1. Do you consider ColdFusion to be Object Oriented? > Yes: 66% > No: 34% > > 2. What percentage do you think ColdFusion achieves the ability to code OO > style. > 0-20%: 2% > 20-40%: 4% > 40-60%: 24% > 60-80%: 44% > 80-100%: 26% > > 3. Would you like the Adobe ColdFusion team to further develop ColdFusion OO > features? > Yes: 58% > No: 42% > > 4. What is the number one feature missing from ColdFusion from an OO point > of view? > None / Pass: 52% > Overloading: 16% > Constructors: 10% > Overriding: 4% > Interfaces: 4% > Multiple Inheritance: 2% > Serialization: 2% > Other: 10% > > That last one was free text, so I combined a lot of dumb answers into None / > Pass and lots of single votes into Other. I consider that CF already does > Overriding, but I left it in the stats and CF8 does Interfaces but I left it > in also. > > But here is my summary of the survey > > Of the people surveyed 66% of people think that ColdFusion is an Object > Oriented language, 70% of people think that the OO features are between > 60-100%, just over half 58% of people think more development needs to be > done and the main two things missing are Overloading and Constructors. > > So ColdFusion is Object Oriented after all, I have always thought so and am > supported by the numbers, we here code our entire application in a OO way so > to me it was a no brainer. You could read deeper that if Adobe just added > Overloading and Constructors that the CF OO feel would be almost complete > but then again 52% of people passed on what the main missing feature was. > > > Regards > Dale Fraser > > http://dalefraser.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
