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March 5, 2009
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Coldfusion is dead

  • March 5, 2009
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Morning. I have heard this phrase so many times and it never really got under my skin until this morning when a coworker (who isn't valued as an MVP) said: "Coldfusion is dead".

Why do people say this? Can someone please tell me why this is thrown around so often? I know several other languages and without a doubt rank cf as 1. I prefer it and would hate to see it "die".

I recently read this interesting blog post. http://davejlowe.com/blog/2007/07/02/coldfusion-dead/ The comments are what make it good.

Does Adobe plan on retiring cf? If so, why? What makes other developers make the claim that it's dead/dying?

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    tclaremont
    tclaremont
    Inspiring
    March 5, 2009
    When I get paid to "program in XYZ", I program in XYZ.
    When I get paid to "get things done", I program in CF.
    N
    Newsgroup_User
    Inspiring
    March 5, 2009
    tclaremont wrote:
    > Search the archives. Discussed ad nauseum.

    Just for fun and to turn this around.

    Has anybody ever seen a 'xxx' language is dead, ColdFusion has killed it?

    I'll admit I have never really looked, but I have never seen anything
    like this. It is always interesting that the posts I have seen is that
    ColdFusion is dead because 'xxx' is so much better.

    Of course my take is that if 'xxx' is really all that much better, then
    one does not need to shout and scream about it and why it has killed
    anything else. But there I go being logical in a flame ware again.

    N
    Newsgroup_User
    Inspiring
    March 5, 2009
    idesdema wrote:

    > Why do people say this? Can someone please tell me why this is thrown around
    > so often?

    As tclaremont says, you can find discussion after discussion on the life
    and death of ColdFusion.

    But as to the 'Why do people say this'. IMHO, because a lot of people
    or dumb and|or overly completive and|or ignorant are my top three choices.
    tclaremont
    tclaremont
    Inspiring
    March 5, 2009
    Search the archives. Discussed ad nauseum.
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