Dear ColdFusion Troll,

I'm sorry that, recently, you haven't agreed with some things I've said on my blog. I regret that I cause your lack of self-confidence to surface, and that you feel that continually leaving anonymous comments on my blog is a beneficial form of therapy.

If you felt what you had to say was valid, and had confidence in your abilities as a writer, you'd probabably sign your work. Because you can't subscribe to entries, I hope you get this message, through the same channels you've gotten my other posts.

Earlier today, you implied that you'd like ColdFusion to have interfaces. Not for an intelligent reason, like those left by my other commentors, but because adding interfaces would leave us "with a language that resembles C# and is able to actually compete in the marketplace."

I've done a fair amount of C#, and really, it does a great job resembling Java.

Success in the marketplace is generally defined by economic success; if you were wise enough to hold Macromedia stock, you'd probably feel that ColdFusion and their other products have been successful. Unfortunately, if you've purchased MSFT stock to back C#, you've probably gone about nowhere for the past two years, while ADBE has doubled.

Maybe learning better market analysis skills could help with your ongoing self-esteem issues?

Going further, I'm afraid the only thing "dumb" about the statement "Macromedia took a robust language (Java) and dumbed it down" is the statement itself. If you'll review your history a bit, you'd notice that Macromedia took a limited language (ColdFusion) and rebuilt it on top of a robust language (Java), keeping ColdFusion's simplicity while allowing the full set of Java's capabilities to be accessed. That strikes me as a well-planned "smartening up."

If you continue to think that we "should have a better product than .NET because we have to pay an arm and leg for it!," I'm afraid that you yourself have some "smartening-up" to do. I've been doing ColdFusion for a while now, and I somehow still have both arms and legs.

If the price of a ColdFusion (even Enterprise) license is half of your limbs, I suggest you begin to value yourself more highly, or at least enter into a regimen of diet and exercise that increases the value of your carcas.

I'm concerned about more than just your health here; if you go beyond your limited scope of experience and purchase some serious enterprise software, you may have to give up not only your remaining limbs, but begin harvest those of your coworkers, friends, and family. ColdFusion is rather cheap in comparison, even in its Enterprise edition.

So please, see a psychiatrist about the esteem issue, and for the sake of your health and those around you, use a corporate card, not your body parts, to purchase software.

Sincerely,

Joe Rinehart

P.S. I've tried to use small words as much as possible, but please feel free to ask for clarification.