On 5/6/07 10:47 AM, "Sammy Larbi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know where this inferiority complex comes from, but its seems to > persist in the CF community. I know I used to feel it, but I don't any > more.
I think from CF'ers who've heard of other languages (or from advocates of other languages) but not really researched their pros and cons or worked with them on non-trivial projects. In my experience the CF'ers who've actually coded for real in other languages may miss closures or blocks, but they don't miss static typing unless they work in larger teams or on larger projects where the benefits of the "paperwork" outweigh the joy of RAD coding. I get where you could miss method overloading if you've got used to it but I was never a huge fan of it as I found it to be confusing sometimes where you have inheritance trees with methods with the same name as you'd THINK you had found the right method but wouldn't have (because you'd found the one which takes an int and a string, not the one that takes two ints). Of course, if I'd been using a real IDE that wouldn't have been such a problem . . . Anyhow, CF is a templating language with scripting support and a great set of libraries for RAD'ing glue code. No language can be everything to everyone. CF is great at what it is great at. Works for me. Best Wishes, Peter You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at http://www.cfczone.org/listserv.cfm CFCDev is supported by: Katapult Media, Inc. We are cool code geeks looking for fun projects to rock! www.katapultmedia.com An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/cfcdev@cfczone.org
