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I upvoted it because it was my exact sentiment. When I saw the submission title, I thought "oh no." And then I felt relief that it was not about the CF platfor

by RevRal 17y ago

I upvoted it because it was my exact sentiment. When I saw the submission title, I thought "oh no." And then I felt relief that it was not about the CF platform. Coldfusion was pretty bad when it was first introduced, and it hasn't improved much. I've been dodging it for years, but some of my friends haven't been so lucky. Each of them hates it, and one had even quit his job because his employer didn't want to give it up. Yes, I would be sad if CF became "mainstream" again and I had to learn it. If I recall correctly, everyone needed ColdFusion when it was first introduced, and it is only barely alive due to that initial boom.

erlanger 17y ago
Few things are as ugly as <cfswitch expression="expr"> <cfcase value="val"> ...
- hackernews 17y ago
  Isn't there a cfscript equivalent that is more pleasing to the eye? Something like: switch (expr) { case "val"....
- elai 17y ago
  look at jsp!
JimBastard 17y ago
CF was one of the nicer programming languages I've ever worked with. Circa 2002-2005 there wasn't anything close to a better alternative. The down-fall of CF was Rails since Rails is open-source, huge community, is free, and powered by Ruby. CF was closed sourced, small community, and powered by Java. Yuck.
- ryanwaggoner 17y ago
  Umm..seriously? PHP? Python? 2005 wasn't that long ago.
  - rbanffy 17y ago
    I wonder what the poor guy had to work with...
    - JimBastard 17y ago
      Yeah there were a ton of awesome PHP frameworks and Python web frameworks in 2002. :-(
      - rbanffy 17y ago
        In 2002 I was happy working with Zope, so, yes. There was at least one very cool Python web framework.
etherael 17y ago
I also quit a job because of their attachment to CF, I joined initially with an apprehensive mind because I'd spoken to a few of my friends about it and they got this look in their eyes like I used to see only amongst people that had tried to keep windows servers in the late 90's running for extended periods of time. Nevertheless I resolved to give it a shot, the experience was so bad I was reduced to a gibbering wreck, quivering and wishing for my sane C64 BASIC interpreter rather than having to write cf tag based code structures because the designers of the language couldn't be bothered to even finish the rudimentary cfscript implementation they made in an extremely half assed fashion. CF needs to die; forever, I want it wiped from the face of the planet, if I ever decide to become a berserker instead of biting my tongue for blood I will just remember the pain inflicted on me trying to use this steaming pile of excrement. Enough bad things can simply never be said about CF, this article headline alone almost gave me an aneurysm, and I felt a soothing feeling of relief wash over me when I realised they were only referring to the potentially junk science version so widely misunderstood by the public at large. I can think of no realisation in the same vein that would actually make me feel such a positive response except in this specific narrow example. </rant>

by RevRal 17y ago

erlanger 17y ago

Few things are as ugly as <cfswitch expression="expr"> <cfcase value="val"> ...

hackernews 17y ago
Isn't there a cfscript equivalent that is more pleasing to the eye? Something like: switch (expr) { case "val"....
elai 17y ago
look at jsp!

JimBastard 17y ago

CF was one of the nicer programming languages I've ever worked with. Circa 2002-2005 there wasn't anything close to a better alternative. The down-fall of CF was Rails since Rails is open-source, huge community, is free, and powered by Ruby. CF was closed sourced, small community, and powered by Java. Yuck.

ryanwaggoner 17y ago
Umm..seriously? PHP? Python? 2005 wasn't that long ago.
- rbanffy 17y ago
  I wonder what the poor guy had to work with...
  - JimBastard 17y ago
    Yeah there were a ton of awesome PHP frameworks and Python web frameworks in 2002. :-(
    - rbanffy 17y ago
      In 2002 I was happy working with Zope, so, yes. There was at least one very cool Python web framework.

etherael 17y ago

I also quit a job because of their attachment to CF, I joined initially with an apprehensive mind because I'd spoken to a few of my friends about it and they got this look in their eyes like I used to see only amongst people that had tried to keep windows servers in the late 90's running for extended periods of time. Nevertheless I resolved to give it a shot, the experience was so bad I was reduced to a gibbering wreck, quivering and wishing for my sane C64 BASIC interpreter rather than having to write cf tag based code structures because the designers of the language couldn't be bothered to even finish the rudimentary cfscript implementation they made in an extremely half assed fashion. CF needs to die; forever, I want it wiped from the face of the planet, if I ever decide to become a berserker instead of biting my tongue for blood I will just remember the pain inflicted on me trying to use this steaming pile of excrement. Enough bad things can simply never be said about CF, this article headline alone almost gave me an aneurysm, and I felt a soothing feeling of relief wash over me when I realised they were only referring to the potentially junk science version so widely misunderstood by the public at large. I can think of no realisation in the same vein that would actually make me feel such a positive response except in this specific narrow example. </rant>