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April 1st, 2003, 07:23 AM
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Macromedia Genius
There an amusing attempt at explaining comparison operators in the
"Things to watch out for" section at the bottom of this page: http://www.macromedia.com/support/f...nts/varpath.htm I'm off to find their explanation of assignment ops now..  christo
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April 1st, 2003, 07:52 AM
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Have you seen their "PHP vs. ColdFusion" article?
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx...s/php_cfmx.html From the article: " The ColdFusion code has several advantages that are evident right from the start: it's shorter and more concise." Yeah. Right. Coldfusion, print variable value to screen: Code:
<cfset my_variable = "Hello, World!"> <cfoutput>#my_variable#</cfoutput> PHP, print variable value to screen: Code:
<?= $my_variable = "Hello, World!" ?> Small example, but CFML is almost always longer & more convoluted than PHP...
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April 1st, 2003, 11:05 AM
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Mostly crap. What's funny though, is that the framework I use (CGI::Application, mod_perl, Apache::DBI, HTML::Template, CGI::Session::MySQL) addresses each and every weakness of PHP as compared to CFML.
Interesting, but still crap.
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April 1st, 2003, 11:56 AM
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For what its worth, I don't really think CFML is crap. There are a lot of graphic designers out there that I know use CFML, as they can't understand other web-scripting languages like perl (not saying perl is just for webscripting here), php, asp, jsp (also not saying that jsp has any place on the web either
 ), etc., but still have basic needs to add some dimension of functionality and/or dynamicism to their websites. I think CFML is the right tool for these people. It gets the job done in a way that graphic designers can comprehend & manage. I really do take issue, though, w/ Macromedia pitting CFM against PHP... they're targeted to completely different audiences, for different purposes. MM needs to realize the limitations of CFM and understand that their primary market for the CF tools is the graphic designers, not the programmers of the world. They also need to stop trying to prove that CF is so much easier than php, jsp, asp, etc... its not. The final product in CF will always take more code & more time to develop than PHP or other web scripting languages.
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April 1st, 2003, 01:40 PM
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I think we can chalk it up to them singing for their supper- they own ColdFusion, so of course any articles they write about it will have bias.
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April 1st, 2003, 02:25 PM
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yeah, you're right of course... i would just hope they could go about trumpeting CFML w/o sounding ignorant about other script langs... oh well.
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