[thelist] Evaluation of ChiliSoft

And on flip side, I *am* a hard core programmer (C++, Java, Perl, etc.) who
much prefers the CF tag based development for HTML.

Mileage varies.

Chris Evans
chris@fuseware.com
http://www.fuseware.com
AIM: ChrisEvns



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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.

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