[thelist] Evaluation of ChiliSoft

OK, so enough of the meta-info. What do people think
of ChiliSoft.

Martin Burns
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> And on flip side, I *am* a hard core programmer (C++, Java, Perl, etc.)
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> much prefers the CF tag based development for HTML.
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> Mileage varies.
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> Chris Evans
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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...
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> 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...
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> 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...
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> > From: "Burns, Martin" <BURNSM@rbos.co.uk>
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> > 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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