Thought Delimited

In case you missed hearing about it, Hal Helms, Brian Kotek, and Ben Nadel got together recently to do a podcast about the ongoing debate with doing object-oriented programming (OOP) in ColdFusion. Hal took the position that ColdFusion is not suited to doing OOP and that OOP is overkill for most ColdFusion applications, while Brian defended the use of OOP when used appropriately and judiciously, and Ben took on the role of the undecided developer.

I listened to the podcast this afternoon, and I thought it was a frank, rational, and realistic discussion about the issue (as I pretty much expected from these gentlemen). I encourage anyone who's got an interest in this topic to check out the podcast: you can download it from the following link:

http://epicenter-public.s3.amazonaws.com/ColdFusion-and-OOP--Match-Made-in-Heaven-or-Long-Road-to-Hell.mp3

Comments and further discussion about the podcast are being done using Google Groups, so if you have something to say on the topic, follow this link:

http://groups.google.com/group/coldfusionoo