From: Michael Dinowitz <mdinowit@...2000.com>
Date: 2001-05-23T06:33:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15559] Re: ColdFusion for Ruby

I'm not only looking for me. I'm kind of a leader in the CF community and
I'm 'covering the bases' to make sure that the CF style of syntax stays
alive and flourishes. If people see that Ruby has the same syntax or
something very close then they'll pick it up and play with it. From there
they'll start to use ruby syntax as needed. One of the keys to CF is that
non-programmers can pick it up because it's 'logical' on a basic level.
CFQUERY does a query. CFOUTPUT does an output. Programming logic takes time.
Word logic is 'grown' into people as they go through life. A tag based
syntax is actually 2 things. The first is a tag that looks like HTML and
integrates into it. The second (and more important in my mind) is a simple
name/use scheme.


> "Michael Dinowitz" <mdinowit@i-2000.com> writes:
>
> > These are some of the basic changes or additions that need to be made to
> > eruby to allow CF programmers to get right into using the language for
web
> > apps. [...]
>
> Why do you want eruby to change in such a way?  It already has
> analogous features to those you mention, including the ability to talk
> to databases, along with evaluation and iterators.  I've never found
> the CF way of doing it particularly logical, so why not do the ruby
> way?
>
> --
> MJR
>