It's _ALL_ machine language in the end. ;)

Seriously, the _REAL_ reason to NOT use Colf Fusion is that is simply does not allow a seperation of presentation and data/logic. You have to embed HTML into your logic, which in the end will always be a maintenance nightmare.

Why seperate? Because you can give 2 people jobs instead of one (scale that to teams and it is even more useful). One person can be a skilled programmer and the other a skilled designer. Even if you are the sole worker, you still benefit from seperating - if nothing more than to ease your mind by allowing you to focus on the task at hand, without having the other block your mental flow with noise.

Why don't you show your friend the power of templating, such as Template and my personal favorite, HTML::Template. That ought to convince him that Perl is much much much MUCH more than machine language.

Jeff 

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In reply to (jeffa) Re: Perl = Machine Language? by jeffa
in thread Perl = Machine Language? by gryphon

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