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Re:SQL Fiddle by harel on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @03:43PM (#6523367)
If I remember correctly, F#&@ed Company, pud's old wonder box of startup gossip was also done in ColdFusion (though in those days it was quite a good platform to do web stuff).
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Re:SQL Fiddle by davidgerard on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @04:48PM (#6523758)
No, there just wasn't a less-worse one. Bloody PHP is an improvement on ColdFusion.
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Re:SQL Fiddle by harel on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @06:08PM (#6524216)
I disagree with you here. Although I would not choose ColdFusion for anything these days, in 1998/1999 it was a super fast way to get a web site/app together. Post 2000 it was converted to Java and became a glorified JSP tag library. It was a good platform that didn't stand the test of time.
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Re:SQL Fiddle by davidgerard on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @06:32PM (#6524350)
I remember it being quite horrible around that time. But, as you say, a fast way to get a site together. I maintain that PHP was actually less worse, and I despise PHP with a contempt that would give [INSERT DICTATOR HERE] pause.
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