Yeahh.. probably true. I don't know of a single decent hacker who enjoys working with ColdFusion

Don't be too hasty in judgment.

My brother is a very good ColdFusion programmer. He got his start in the language because it was what I was programming with at the time. (Don't forget, around '99 when I got my start, there was Perl, ASP and Coldfusion as serious contenders.)

I ask him, "Why don't you give PHP or Rails a whirl?" "No interest." And so he focuses his effort in refining his ColdFusion skillset. He does Ajax and does CSS design with the best of them.

Having "no interest" in learning other languages is a serious bad mark against your brother, I'm afraid. He might be a "very good" programmer, but he'll never be great - never be a "hacker", by pg's definition.

I don't know any hacker who doesn't have an intense, irrepressible interest to learn new stuff - languages, frameworks, whatever. I also don't know a single hacker who hasn't learned well over half a dozen languages to a proficient level. And no, CSS and AJAX don't count (unless the Javascript is taken to a scary level). Sounds like your brother is a designer with some coding skills, not technical co-founder material.

I personally don't use ColdFusion but I guess there are some CF haters around these parts. I guess that why you were downmodded. But please as hackers we love certain bits of technology and swear by them or perhaps swear at them lol(PHP comes to mind). I understand you as my brother also loves the ActionScript family of languages. And does not have any interest learning anything else.

It was probably downmodded because of the "no interest" in learning anything else.

Any programmer worth his/her salt should be always learning newer technologies that might be useful to him/her. Having a favorite is different than not wanting to learn anything else.