Peter,
The short answer is that while Cold Fusion is easier to program in than Perl, it
does not take the programming, logic or database knowledge requirements away.
I've been programming since '82 so yes, picking up Cold Fusion wasn't difficult,
but I can tell you that I have been stumped now and again and really had to
think about the code. Things like forms are infinitely easier than Perl, but
some of my code is fairly complex (ie. code to load one table, figure out its
record number, then load multiple records into a related table).
Can a secretary do Cold Fusion... forms maybe.. but I've tried to teach
non-techies about it.. and even just to leave that part of the code alone and it
doesn't alway work.
Peter J. Schoenster wrote:
> I wonder about the intended market for CF. Is it a "look your
> secretaries can use this". I then wonder about the future.
>
> Warning, this is philosophical - read only at risk of losing some
> time.
I think the philosophy was simply to give developers tools to achieve what they
needed to, without having to code pages and pages of stuff. Hey I used to code
in Cobol and I wrote thousands and thousands of lines of code. Don't you think
that writing a few hundred lines of code in another language is better? You
still need to know the logic, it just takes the tedium out of it.
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