[thelist] Cold Fusion

[Drew Shiel]

At 15:04 14/05/2004, Rob Smith wrote:
>This is just a general post to those of you out there employing a CF
>solution. What do you like about it? Hate about it? Do you think the costs
>justify the benefits? etc.

   I was sceptical at first, but I've come to like it.

   Good points include:

   Clear structure. Since CF uses "tags" that aren't any different to html 
in looks, your scripts are much easier to read through. Of course, my 
coming from a HTML-not-programming background may have something to do with 
this :). Structures like <cfif>, <cfelse>, </cfif> also make sense to me 
much better than, for instance, the "if" structure of PHP. CF's time 
functions are notable for clarity of reading, in particular.

   Excellent SQL handling. You can loop through queries very easily, modify 
values from them while keeping the variable name, etc.

   Poor points:

   It's not open-source, and this bugs me when I want to do something 
slightly unusual, and I have to chase through half a hundred COM and Java 
objects, and end up pestering the developers in here to write me custom 
tags for this particular purpose. Were it open source, I fancy that many of 
these would already exist, and be folded into the main distribution.

   While its error messages are good, the error logs commit the heinous 
crime of not always telling you the script the error is coming from.

   Drew. 
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