[thelist] Evaluation of ChiliSoft

i would be very wary of making such an absolute statement...

i was never trained has a programmer, and as such, the idea of 
object oriented, strings, literals, recordsets, blah, blah... was 
completely new to me when i started into the back end...

as an HTML hand-code, i tried a few different tag-based server-side 
scripting languages -- including CF and some proprietary e-
commerce crap my former employers purchased...

all they did was confuse me... i couldn't visually parse my code, no 
matter how well i tried to format it... other developers started 
including <CFIF> tags because they thought that was HTML, and 
didn't know it was server-side... there were many horror stories...

however, i tried ASP one afternoon (which i resisted because it's an 
MS product), and literally by the end of the day i had the basics of 
If/Else, SUBs, teh Request object, etc... and those damn <% %> 
tags were cake to see and understand...

so, while my experience is anecdotal at best, i am an example of a 
non-hardcore programmer who coldn't work with tag-based 
scripting... the features didn't differ anywhere near enough to make 
me choose based on that (although i've since decided ASP is a 
better solution for what i do, that wasn't the initial draw), it was all 
about the interface...

i would poll your developers before deciding what they are or are 
not comfortable with...

> From: "Burns, Martin" <BURNSM@rbos.co.uk>
>
> It's also a possibility I'm thinking about raising, but if
> we can avoid ASP, then I'm punting for CF, as it's
> more easily learned by non-hardcore programmers.