I go back to 94 in 94 I used to hang on the dalnet servers with many other nerds, Mr allaire was a member of the chan he went by the alias "allaireman" I wen't by the alias "bourkeman" along with heaps of devs in the chan there was 1 dev who went by "ditroxsietosis"
anyway back then parts of the server for open source, as allaireman was seeking help from the chan and sending to and from 1 another txt files of code, anyway at the time cfset was actually called <cfvar> and ditroxsietosis (who I thinks real name was richard cranium IIRC) said if the language was to attract newbies it needed to be even more basic and suggested cfset. then I had a closer look at the tag list which only had 4 tags at the time, anyway there was 1 tag called <cfwrite> at the time allaireman had even wrote about half a page of documentation, the documentation for <cfwrite> stated something like "this tag is used to output data to the page" so I suggested "why not call it cfoutput". allaireman said (I have the logs here somewhere let me check) "I want the tags to be under 8 chars including the opening and closeing pointy brackets" Bourkeman said "what... are people only going to be accessing these servers by using dos command line?" then after about 4 minutes allaireman agreed on <cfoutput>. after a few months of receiving channel (including getting 3 chan members to alpha test cf0.5) help allireman started coming into the chan a lot less often and by the time cf1.0 got launched he stopped visiting the chan for good, so most of us being insecure nerds were disappointed with him and simply kept hacking away with c++, then in 2001 I started using CF commercially starting with cf4.5, not long after that I was using 5.0 then beta testing neo now I use CFMX 6.1 and BD 6.2, I refuse to use cfmx7.0 until they get rid of the MX and give it a different name :P M@ who has been using CF longer then all you [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
