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There is a great post going on over at DevShed about PHP developers and ColdFusion. Some PHP developers don't seem to take ColdFusion seriously and this post is attempting to find out why.

The first scripting language I learned was actually ColdFusion. We messed around with it for a while where I work in an effort to make a database-driven webpage. At the time, I was an intern, and I must say that my code was sloppier than hell. I didn't use many of the available ColdFusion tags and didn't follow "good coding habits". Then one day, my friend Ben introduced me to PHP. I like it because it's open source, and support for it can be found almost anywhere. As a computer engineer, I ran into all sorts of new languages with strange syntax in college, so PHP was nothing new for me. Since I've learned PHP, I've done more work with ColdFusion, and most of my bad habits with it seemed to disappear. I almost feel like PHP has guided my development in a better direction.

My point is that I am one of those PHP developers who generally dislikes ColdFusion. The whole tag thing with ColdFusion doesn't ever work smoothly for me unless I have a stack of reference books next to me. As far as syntax goes, PHP is more intuitive to me than ColdFusion. I have always felt that ColdFusion isn't very strict when it comes to syntax.

Anyway, I think the post over at DevShed is worth checking out. Anyone who uses scripting languages with web development could learn a new thing or two. Most importantly, with a couple of scripting languages under your belt, you can choose the one that works best for your application.

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