At one point, when he was especially frustrated by CF not being able to display one of a series of graphics dynamically, he exclaimed, "It almost seems like it'd be easier to write this in machine language." I commented, "You know, you could just do that in Perl." He replied, "Yeah, you could. But that's basically machine language anyway."

Sounds like the guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Kind of sad.

The big problem with ColdFusion (and similar systems) is that you're "married" to it. Point this out the management and let them ponder the implications.

With Perl you can use most web servers on most platforms, and there's a growing codebase on CPAN that adds all sorts of capabilities to your web site (ie, dynamic graphics, document types other than HTML, gateways to other systems, even use code written in other languages, etc.)

In reply to Shadenfreud (was "Re: Perl = Machine Language?") by rrwo
in thread Perl = Machine Language? by gryphon

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