LOL, I wasnt bashing your bashing ;-), as everyone is entitled to an opinion and a preference when it comes to coding. I do agree that a few years ago CF was old and clunky but now with CF in all reality just Java it has so many more possiblilties in the OO arena, MVC is everywhere now within CF, CF is stronger than ever now and with CF8 on the horizon things are looking good!
On Jan 30, 10:28 am, Christophe Porteneuve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey there (what's your name, btw?), > > The Manhatten Project a écrit : > > > "Coldfusion (for crying out loud!) "I admit to gratuituous slight bashing > > due to possibly obsolete > encounters with the technology, quite a few years back. > > I used ColdFusion back when Allaire still existed... At the time, I > didn't like it at all, for a number of reasons: way too closed a dev > universe, way too little horsepower, clumsy syntax, difficulty for > MVC-like practices, and the like. > > Then Macromedia (yeah, noticed your e-mail address) bought Allaire, > turned HomeSite into something a bit bulky, and started working on > ColdFusion at some point. I hear all kinds of things now, so for all I > know, it's better. It's certainly still out there, which amazes me a > bit. (But then, diversity is good for competition and innovation, isn't > it?) > > I just, on principle, wouldn't buy into a non-OSS server-side tech. So > I go RoR now, and use PHP or J2EE-related FLOSS stacks when I must. > > But again, and for the record: I'm absolutely no CF expert, and my rare > experiences with it are way old. > > It seems much like the outsider in the server-side world though, so "for > crying out loud!" also referred to its, er... exotic label now? :-) > > -- > Christophe Porteneuve aka TDD > [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
