Yes of course, choice of tech is mostly irrelevant as long as it works, and "cool" is an absurd criteria.

But you have to like it, esp. when you're a solo founder/programmer and it's what you do day in and day out.

CFML is and always was an inferior tech. Worse than PHP, together with ASP. But kudos to the Guy that makes itvwork the way he need.

In the time you've taken to miss the point, Kaplan's probably launched another business.

And now he is launching the third one. As a software developer myself, what is the point you got that I missed? CFML is awesome?

I am a bit of a language nerd myself so I'm inclined to agree with you from a technical perspective.

I just want to hammer in that last point you made about making it work the way he needs. I think this is often the most overlooked and undervalued thing in tech. Has been for a long time.

It's quite often people look at something like this or walk into a project at a new company with existing code and realize that sometimes the important thing is that it works well for what it's intended goal is not that it's written with the newest JavaScript Library or the newest implementation of Django (great stuff there btw not knocking Django).

Sometimes Perl is fine thank you. Still the best string processing language in the business In my not so humble opinion :)

I remember when CGI was all the rage and then poof everyone now thinks that it's gross. Anyone remember making money on custom joomla templates and plugins?

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