in reply to Perl = Machine Language?

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

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Re: Re: Perl = Machine Language?
by jepri (Parson) on Jul 04, 2001 at 11:29 UTC
    Interestingly enough, one of my friends has used both Coolfusion and PHP, and claimed that there was nothing better than CoolFusion for displaying database stuff in a webpage. He then went on to add that for anything more complicated, you really should use PHP.

    I imagine if we substituted the word 'Perl' for 'PHP' the statement would still be valid.

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