On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:52:23PM +0100, Martijn Faassen wrote:
[I know little about ColdFusion, quite a bit about Zope]
Good, I know a little of both. ;-)
Ben Galbraith wrote:
I'm with a new e-commerce startup and we're currently evaluating the development tools we'll be using to create our website. The platform will either be Sun hardware running Solaris 7/Apache, or Intel/Linux boxes.
Does ColdFusion run on Intel/Linux yet?
Just released last Monday (11/1)
Second, it seems that ColdFusion offers all the functionality that Zope does and then some.
Acquisition? i.e. a way to decompose functionality for your website..it has some very powerful uses. Unfortunately it's hard to explain. :)
I miss this all the time with CF: The only way I've found to decompose and reuse is CFINCLUDE, which requires a pathname. Very clunky.
Ability to extend it in the (in my opinion) friendliest scripting language in the world, Python? Extend it in *significant* ways; you can build whole new components. You can do simpler (but still very powerful) extensions through external methods as well.
And Python can do a *lot* of things.
An example: I wanted to store usernames and passwords in an SQL table, but crypt() the passwords. Took me less than an hour to modify the UserDB product to do this. I never accomplished it with CF: would have to drop to C to do it, and I didn't have the Win32 compilers or CF SDK (or whatever it takes). Ended up writing a C extension to PostgreSQL to do it, instead! Ross -- Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm@rice.edu> NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer Computer and Information Technology Institute Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005