Re: RE: Cold Fusion

Has Anyone done a side by side comparison of load and run times.
I am looking for some sort of benchmark.
My roommate all the time tries to convince me to switch to CF and abandon the old perl, but I realize that perl has more flexablity and is robust for non-web applications.(plus has a large support base, shout out to perlmonks)
www.cfmtools.com

A couple of my friends say that CF is a bloated. I neither support nor deny this clam since I have little experience with CF.
Is short I would apperiate it if someone who is strong in both perl and CF knowledge comparies and contrasts the two in detail.
(ya I know compairing a markup language to a scripting program is like apples to hairy coding monkey)

Should I add CF to my language collection?

Hacker_j99

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Re: Re: RE: Cold Fusion by mwp (Hermit) on Jan 13, 2003 at 05:46 UTC
You should never shy away from adding another language to your personal repertoire. ColdFusion is bloated IMO. Didn't I say just that in the OP? :-) But if you think you have a need for it, knock your socks off! It's a fun and easy language that a lot of sites still use. But Perl is faster, more powerful, and much, much cheaper. A side by side comparison isn't really necessary. It's maybe 10-20% faster to code up a database-to-web app in CFML. Spend a few weeks coding in ColdFusion if you don't believe me. But Perl is FREE. And it's FAST. And you can do more than just database-to-web apps! That's all it boils down to. Alakaboo	[reply]

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Re: Re: RE: Cold Fusion
by mwp (Hermit) on Jan 13, 2003 at 05:46 UTC

You should never shy away from adding another language to your personal repertoire.

ColdFusion is bloated IMO. Didn't I say just that in the OP? :-) But if you think you have a need for it, knock your socks off! It's a fun and easy language that a lot of sites still use.

But Perl is faster, more powerful, and much, much cheaper. A side by side comparison isn't really necessary. It's maybe 10-20% faster to code up a database-to-web app in CFML. Spend a few weeks coding in ColdFusion if you don't believe me. But Perl is FREE. And it's FAST. And you can do more than just database-to-web apps! That's all it boils down to.

Alakaboo

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