[thelist] ColdFusion and PhP

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Sat Jul 7 18:03:36 CDT 2001


Richard Bennett wrote on 7/7/01 11:41 pm

>The reason being that these are tools that hide the real workings of the
>webpage, making things simple to start off with, but you're not really
>learning anything about what's really going on, so if something goes wrong
>you're out of your depth pretty fast.
>
>I'm not saying you can't use these, but a good basis in PHP, ASP,
>javascript, and a little Perl will get you a long way, and in most cases
>it'll be a lot easier to debug your script when something goes wrong.

But Richard, don't all those other things abstract the actual workings
too? Hell, even SQL's an abstraction layer, and every layer of the
TCP/IP stack is an abstraction layer.

Now if you're writing on the lowest levels of the TCP stack in *binary*,
that's a bit different - how *do* those gosh-darned electrons get about
anyway?

Cheers
Martin

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