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CF was one of the nicer programming languages I've ever worked with. Circa 2002-2005 there wasn't anything close to a better alternative.

The down-fall of CF was Rails since Rails is open-source, huge community, is free, and powered by Ruby. CF was closed sourced, small community, and powered by Java. Yuck.

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Umm..seriously? PHP? Python? 2005 wasn't that long ago.

I wonder what the poor guy had to work with...

Yeah there were a ton of awesome PHP frameworks and Python web frameworks in 2002.

:-(

In 2002 I was happy working with Zope, so, yes. There was at least one very cool Python web framework.

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