Talk:ColdFusion

Further edits

I've removed the personal spam claim against me from here. It's misleading as the links were all to different resources.

ColdFusion a Framework

If you think it is please cite. I would like to hear why and then if you consider PHP a framework also. Software_framework —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mhenke (talk • contribs) 19:55, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

NPOV? ColdFusion and .NET

This passage seems lacking of NPOV. Please fix it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.255.113.178 (talk) 23:14, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Companies using ColdFusion

While evaluating ColdFusion for a future, project, I fact checked the companies listed under "Companies using ColdFusion." While it is true that these companies did use ColdFusion in the past, they do not now. Many of these entries are extraordinarily dated, some as early as 2000. Further, contacting these companies, revealed that they do not use the technology any longer.

I would like to propose striking this section. It seems more marketing material than fact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.26.154.207 (talk) 20:36, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

I think it's a great idea - the source is dubious and it not verified. --CutOffTies (talk) 20:39, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Inaccurate terminology

"All versions of ColdFusion prior to 6.0 were written using Microsoft Visual C++. This meant that ColdFusion was largely limited to running on Microsoft Windows, although Allaire did successfully port ColdFusion to Sun Solaris starting with version 3.1."

Just because it's written with a Microsoft IDE doesn't mean it's limited to Windows at all. This could probably use a bit of a reworking if anyone's interested. 24.2.4.28 (talk) 21:25, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

What is the programming language mentioned in the lead?

The lead contains: "ColdFusion is used to refer to both a commercial rapid application development platform ... , and the programming language used with that platform."

What is the programming language? Is it CFML or CFScript? Or both?

--Mortense (talk) 18:56, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

CFML is the language, and is a single language, with two syntax styles (tag-style and script-style).

cfscript is the tag used to embed the script-style syntax into a tag-style file. (Until recently, this tag was required to use the script syntax; both now pure script files are accepted.)

ColdFusion is the Adobe software product which implements CFML. (This article should really remain focused on ColdFusion the product, and leave discussion of CFML the language to the CFML article.)

It is common for people to refer to the language/code as ColdFusion, but this is inaccurate and rather like people calling their web browser "the internet".

I've made an attempt to clarify this in the article, though I'm not really happy with the wording used, so if anyone else wants to have a go at improving it further that'd be great.

Peter Boughton (talk) 15:25, 2 October 2011 (UTC)