> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of John Paul Ashenfelter > Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 11:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CFCDev] Witnessed the power of CF > > On 11/8/05, Dawson, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I worked with an "experienced" Java developer with a degree in CS > that > > spent two days and 800 lines of code creating email in ColdFusion by > > appending strings, using Replace() on their own substitution characters, > and > > writing every few lines to disk before writing the final result directly > to > > the mail spool queue. It was replaced in 5 minutes with 10 lines of code > -- > > still in CF. > > > > Man! I would love to see the code that took 800 lines. You really must > post > > that, if you can. > > My jaw was on the floor! And then they were mad that I chewed them out > and rewrote it b/c "they had worked hard on that code"...
I've been there... I had one woman claim that Java was so much easier to do things in than CF. As proof she displayed the code "that you need to write" just to split a list in CF! About 40 lines of character-by-character looping to find the delimiters and extract values. She wasn't too happy when I wrote "ListToArray()" on the whiteboard. Of course my triumph was short lived: the company dumped CF in favor of WebSphere in no small part due to her recommendations. Jim Davis ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
