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.)
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