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Postings from May 2000
Tzadik and Sheva Vanderhoof wrote: > I've been working for a while now in ColdFusion, after working for the > previous while in Perl, and the difference is night and day. The CF > documentation is often just plain wrong, telling you that the language does > something that it doesn't. More often, its information is vague and > inprecise... Please, please, please don't stoop to allusion when you can post a brief sample. There must be some portion of CF that's vague and similar to a feature Perl supports. Find the two passages in the docs and I will happily delve through the back releases to show how long Perl has had the clearer explanation. (Does Perl5 predate ColdFusion?) > you read something and immediately 2 or 3 questions about it > come to mind which are never answered. I've learned not to trust the > documentation and resort to testing things out to find out how they work... There's merit in using the implementation as the final arbiter when you have a question about syntax. How much more difficult is it to "resort to testing" with Cold Fusion? -- Adam