I've done very large and complex bits in coldfusion, and while I would in almost every case say that perl would be easier for me to put together, the *nearness* of colf fusion tags to html makes it a markup language that html folks can use.

Often, I could work out the difficult bits and leave presentation portions to the folks who know presentation ( I make an ugly website... ) and the combined effect is quite workable.

That said, perl kicks coldfusion's butt in functionality, scalability and speed, but (and I can feel the XP draining before I post) I would hazard to say that for simple systems coldfusion works very nicely and deploys very quickly - in some cases quicker and easier than perl.

It is easier to learn, easier to use, very easy to connect to databases.

Also, since it predates things like php, and it works fine on NT (much better than ASP ever will), it does have a fairly loyal following.

EEjack

In reply to Re: Perl = Machine Language? by eejack
in thread Perl = Machine Language? by gryphon

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