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Language Overload

Have you ever experienced language overload? I seemed to have it heavy tonight while coding. What is it? Oh...let me explain.

Language overload is doing this in ColdFusion:
ListGetAt(mylist, 0, "|")

Its language overload when you know it should be 1 instead of 0 but you do it because you have been coding in an ECMA language (AS, C#, JavaScript, etc) or similar.

That's a simple example/mistake but I found my self write ColdFusion code like this:

Hmm...that doesn't quite look right but my mind wouldn't fully convert to ColdFusion tonight. Maybe I should've starting writing in cfscript.

Have you multi-language developers ever experienced this?

Posted by John C. Bland II on January 25, 2006 3:08 AM |

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