or otherwise). It's not even a reasonable excuse to have a weak stab
at Adobe for the sake of it, AlanW.
At what point did i make a weak stab at Adobe? I merely posed the
question. So let's not get personal here Adam.
Also, another point that you all seem to have missed, is that this is
not an isolated case -- you did catch the bit where agencies are also
categorizing ColdFusion incorrectly. yes?
It seldom ranks in the same area as PHP. So this is more than just one
guy. It was this one chap that, granted, spurred me to take the debate
to a wider community.
The reality of the situation is that the CFML community is small, and it
is not growing any where near the same speed as other languages. So we
have to look at this and wonder why. Why is recruiting for it
problematic, why is the image still of that where its not cool to be
doing CFML.
I know others are finding it hard to recruit for CFML developers too -
so instead of casting the net that everyone is wrong but us, how about
we look at our own community and figure out why people are not wanting
to join the party?
I want CFML to grow. We need CFML to grow. Recruitment is one of the
key market indicators as to the success of a language, and CFML isn't
even in the Top 50 languages!
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
(updated Feb 2011)
It will be interesting for example to see how many people will be at
OpenCFSummit that are new to the language say in the last 6months.
This is no longer Adobe's problem; this is _our_ problem. More power to
Adobe if they can make CFML sexy again. If we don't have more blood
coming in, then _all_ engines are doomed to fail due to a dwindling user
base.
So don't focus on this one guy's mistake, but instead look at the bigger
picture.
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