Jeff Bilger

Not a week goes by without someone asking me why on earth I persist in concentrating on ColdFusion programming instead of honing my skills in Java.... Don't I feel restricted, such questioners ask, having to design systems without the aid of a full-fledged programming language that supports recursion, pointers, user-defined data types/data structures and other characteristic features? Never mind that I can design and deploy dynamic data-driven systems in easily half the time they can with their traditional programming languages. Never mind that they sometimes lose sight of the fact that it's not really which programming language you use, it's whether you know the fundamentals of the methodology you employ. Sure, CF has its limitations...but does it really? I started thinking, wouldn't it be cool if ColdFusion did support recursion, pointers and the ability for pro... (more)