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Care to explain why you hate Cold fusion?

Simply because it's not free??

 

[Nothinman]

That's part of it, but I also thought it was ugly. I havn't given it more than a cursory look, I havn't had to since it's not my job, so I could be completely wrong but why wouldn't I want to use something that's free if I have the chance? Take something like perl, it may not be the prettiest language in the world but it's totally free, supported on everything you can imagine, the number of free modules available is incredible and mod_perl makes it fast as hell.

 

What do you mean by ugly? The code?
it's tag based, which makes it fit with the rest of the markup...it also makes the learning curve super easy

I've never used mod_perl, can you paste some code for me?

 

[Nothinman]

But it's not a markup language, it's a programming language.

I've never used mod_perl, can you paste some code for me?

Havn't you seen perl at all? mod_perl is an apache module that compiles the code at startup and caches it for faster access and has a slightly different method (compared to perl in 'normal' CGI) of calling the perl code. perl.apache.org has a much better description, if you're really interested I suggest you start there.

 

cf isn't a programming language really either...

I've had very minor experience with perl...it was about 8 years ago though.

 

[RhythmAddict]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
That's part of it, but I also thought it was ugly. I havn't given it more than a cursory look, I havn't had to since it's not my job, so I could be completely wrong but why wouldn't I want to use something that's free if I have the chance? Take something like perl, it may not be the prettiest language in the world but it's totally free, supported on everything you can imagine, the number of free modules available is incredible and mod_perl makes it fast as hell.

Interesting. I'm not really sure what ugly means in this case. I've looked at php, and when compared to CF it looks well, messy and overcomplicated. Especially considering within literally 10-15 lines of CF I can be in the DB and searching via a dynamic user query.
As far as the free/cost aspect....Trust me, if i was funding everything myself, I'd only be using free tools. Seeing as how I work for someone else (thankfully...hehe) I have the luxury of spending (their) money on things like software (of my choice) Mind you, we refuse to run any IIS service...therefore we don't run asp, ever ...or really anything on windows other than workstations, including DB's. So, as fas as my job, damn right I'm going to use whatever I prefer to use, provided my Corporation can afford it.