I think the main point is that CF is a tag-based language and encapsulates a lot of issues such as memory allocation and things like that. However, almost all web-based languages do that. I remember reading posts on Allaires CF forum 10 years ago about the death of coldfusion and how ASP and later on PHP were going to put CF out of business. Seems like CF is still going pretty good. Aside from many reasons we all like CF, I also like that since it does cost money to own CF, generally clients that have it are willing to spend money on custom development and not looking to retrofit the next free joomla, wordpress, etc widget.
Steve Parks Adept Developer Consulting, Inc. 713.528.3355 (W) 281.924.5481 (M) [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Angeli Wahlstedt Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 12:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [houcfug] ColdFusion programmers have homicidal tendencies? If we're talking about old-school C language (as opposed to C++ or C# or whatever), then I imagine many young programmers, no matter what language, would have homicidal tendencies trying to learn C. ;-) -- Angeli, a former C/C++ programmer From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Billy Cravens Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 12:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [houcfug] ColdFusion programmers have homicidal tendencies? Was reading a thread on Slashdot about "ageism" in programmer, and the discussion turned to the need to know different languages... Saw this exchange that amused me: (http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1771012 <http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1771012&cid=33416174> &cid=33416174) "... if your first language was cold fusion and it is all you have done for the last 12 years, you may have a difficult time switching to C" "... if that's the case, you have bigger problems, not the least of which being uncontrollable, homicidal tendencies" "... Not to mention the twitching" Billy Cravens -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en
